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The Act of Sanctification of the Cathedral of Salvation of the Nation or the National Cathedral, read after the official service of November 25, 2018, by the Bishop Varlaam Ploiesteanu, signed by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch Daniel and all other serving hierarchs: “In the Centenary 2018, the altar of the Cathedral of Salvation of the …
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Saint Stylianus was born in Paphlagonia of Asia Minor sometime between the fourth and sixth centuries. He inherited a great fortune from his parents when they died, but he did not keep it. He gave it away to the poor according to their need, desiring to help those who were less fortunate. Stylianus left the …
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During the First World War, while politicians prevaricated, Romania’s British queen lobbied for entry on the side of the Allies and courted the international press, becoming the glamorous face of her adopted country’s war effort. Queen Marie of Romania, 20th century. Returning from a whirlwind visit to France and England during the first months of …
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We invite you to the Community Meal organized by the church of “St. John the Evangelist” on Sunday, December 9, 2018. After the Divine Liturgy, the priests and all the parishioners remain in the church hall to benefit from a new opportunity of communion and refreshment of the Romanian living resources. Faithful are asked to …
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It’s not easy to meet him and talk to Father Adrian Făgeţeanu. You must first get to the Lainici Monastery on the narrow and sloping valley of Jiu. Then, after a few hours of rest, you start from morning to sihastria, where the father suddenly withdrew, unexpectedly, without further explanation. Sick and almost blind, he …
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He was the outlaw in youth, a basic man of Tudor Vladimirescu, he founded the first Romanian newspaper and created the tricolor flag, invented the tank crate, a member of the Romanian Academy of 1870, the founder of the national colleges in Bucharest and Craiova, organized the Romanian national education and was the first Romanian …
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Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, one of the Three Hierarchs [January 30], was born at Antioch in about the year 347 into the family of a military commander. His father, Secundus, died soon after the birth of his son. His mother, Anthusa, widowed at twenty years of age, did not seek to remarry but …
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John was a contemporary of influential people. A glorious constellation of geniuses was the light during those years that St. John preached in Constantinople. In the West were Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine. In the east were three Cappadocian Saints: Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, educated, magnetic and fascinating. They were men that St. …
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