Contemporary Romanian Martyrs

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Anyone who knew Father Daniil Sandu Tudor knows that he was not only a great bibliophile, but also that he had an excellent and very large library for those times. Moreover, he was always reading something… A true legend of Bucharest’s interwar bohemian scene, the poet and journalist Sandu Tudor was invariably seen, almost daily, …

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The Holy Pious Filofteia and Elisabeta of Pasărea – monks who were devoted to prayer, merciful, and miracle-workers Pasărea Monastery, a center of Hesychast monastic life founded by the monks of Cernica Monastery, has, over the centuries, produced luminous figures of monastics who, through their pure way of life, have become pillars of prayer and …

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Today, February 4, 2025, in the Romanian Orthodox Church, an important event in the life of the Patriarchate, in the life of the Church and in the life of Christians is taking place: the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the decision of the Holy Synod to raise the Romanian Orthodox Church to the rank …

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One question that was constantly put to Fr. Arsenius was whether, given the rich experience of his life, with its heavy years of imprisonment and periods of retreat in the wilderness, a miracle had been worked on him. Father deftly avoided a direct answer, judging the question to be more of curiosity than of use. …

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