Jure Varga (March 12, 1928 – October 8, 1991) was a radical Kresimirian cleric, theological author, and the founder of the Prophet’s Hands, a designated domestic terrorist organization. Originally a mid-level Diviner within the state’s religious apparatus, Varga became a leading figure of the extreme ultra-orthodox wing of the Sons of Kresimir (SoK) during the early 1970s. Following his expulsion from the Council for Divinity for inciting violence, Varga authored the illicit manifesto The Clean House, which formed the ideological basis for “Divinist Separatism”—the belief that the Divine Republic of Kresimiria must violently expel all non-Sanctians and physically sever District X (Moraviskameja) from its territory. He orchestrated a decade-long terror campaign before his capture by state security in 1985, ultimately dying in federal prison.
Early Life and Clerical Career
Born into a deeply conservative family in Polograd (District III), Varga entered the seminary at Karlovac University in 1946. He was a devout follower of the teachings of Kresimir Basic, the fiery founder of the SoK, and fully supported the brutal authoritarianism of the “Iron Era” under Chancellor Kresimirovic II.
Varga was ordained as a Diviner in 1952. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he served as a regional theological certifier in District VII (Ravna Skrad), an area geographically close to the southern Bosken-majority territories. He grew increasingly embittered by the 1961 Treaty of Brod Moravice, preaching unauthorized sermons that condemned the state’s decision to grant political rights to the Pravoslavic minority as a “spiritual surrender.”
The 1974 Schism and The Clean House
By the early 1970s, Varga had emerged as the loudest critic of the SoK’s moderating establishment. When Tihomir Bran took control of the party in 1973 and pushed for cultural integration rather than military occupation of the south, Varga accused him of heresy. In response to Varga’s increasingly violent public rhetoric, the Council for Divinity permanently revoked his Divinity Certificate in late 1973, stripping him of his clerical authority and voting rights.
In early 1974, Varga led approximately 400 hardline defectors out of the SoK and founded the Prophet’s Hands. Shortly after, he published The Clean House via an underground printing press. The manifesto argued that the Unification War’s annexation of District X was a sin of greed that had allowed “Pravoslavic rot” to infect the Republic. Varga decreed that true believers must forcibly amputate the southern territories and execute any moderate Kresimirian leaders who collaborated with the secular or Bosken populations.
Terror Campaign and Imprisonment (1976–1991)
Under Varga’s direct command, the Prophet’s Hands transitioned from a fringe theological sect into a paramilitary terror group. Varga personally selected the targets for the Polograd Clergy Purge in 1976, resulting in the assassination of three state-sanctioned Diviners. He also claimed responsibility for the devastating Faith Line Express Bombing in 1984, which he described in a smuggled audio tape as a “holy severance of the iron veins connecting us to the unbelievers.”
The 1984 train bombing triggered a massive, centralized manhunt by the Council for Internal Affairs (CIA). In April 1985, heavily armed CIA operatives raided a remote farming compound in District IV (Severnivaraje), capturing Varga after a brief standoff.
Varga was tried in a closed-door military tribunal, found guilty of high treason and sedition, and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. He spent the remainder of his life in solitary confinement at the Moskiprovac Federal Penitentiary, dying of heart failure in 1991. Despite his death, his writings continue to inspire lone-wolf extremists on the encrypted <a href=kresix’>Kresinet</a>.