Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi

CHRISTUS REX is a a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world.

We intend to assemble a collection of images that will constitute a visual representation of the Bible, ad maiorem gloriam Dei! (for the greater glory of God!)

We have started building the data base for a world wide tour of churches and monasteries, comprising in excess of 5000 images.

If you would like to participate in this project, send us your favorite color photographs and we shall process and present them with appropriate credits; please send an email to Michael Olteanu (root@christusrex.org).

Michael Olteanu received an M.S. in Computer Engineering in 1970 and has been designing and engineering data networks for 27 years (five years in Europe and 22 years in California).
He is a lay member of Movimento Sacerdotale Mariano - The Marian Movement of Priests.

Michael joined the Anti-Soviet underground movement in 1954, rose through the ranks and became a leader in 1958. He was captured by the KGB in May 1959, tortured for months and then sentenced by a military tribunal to a prison term of 23 years (since he was 17 at the time of his capture, the court could not impose the standard death penalty). He spent five years in the death camps of the Romanian Gulag.

On September 20, 1961, his younger brother Victor Nicholas was forced to jump through a fifth floor window; his death was officially ruled a suicide. Victor was 17 and a mathematics wizard. His only "crime" was that he happened to be Michael's brother.
May his soul rest forever in the Heavenly Kingdom!

Michael owes his life and freedom to Richard and Marian Wilson of Bonita, CA, to Congressman Bob Wilson of San Diego, CA (Ret.), to Congressman Bill Archer of Houston, TX, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, to General Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser, and to President Gerald Ford who all spent a lot of time interceding on his behalf with Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator.
Michael and his family were authorized to leave Romania for the United States in December 1975 and became U.S. citizens in May 1985.


Guadalupe, December 1531


La Reina de las Americas - The Queen of the Americas


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Please send your comments and problem reports to Michael Olteanu.
E-mail root@christusrex.org