You are known for living a life removed from the turmoil of high society. What led to this withdrawal? Has it been beneficial for your creative work? A difficult question, a terrible answer. The sudden and completely unannounced psychosomatic crisis that struck me on Sunday, May 15, 1983, around 5:30 p.m., is an explanation that …
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Cristian Pătrășconiu: Is it still possible today to write poetry without knowing—or at least without trying to know—the history of poetry? Dinu Flămând: Of course it is, and many venture down this path, in a gentle ignorance. Usually, naivety comes at a price, because the creative lifespan of the uneducated poet is very short. And …
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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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The speaking of the Apostles as a gift of Pentecost confirms the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church everywhere and forever, making it possible to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth. The language of speaking language was not an end in itself of the manifestation of the …
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Queen Victoria was the monarch of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. She became Empress of India in 1877. After Queen Elizabeth II, Victoria was the second-longest-reigning monarch in Britain. During Queen Victoria’s reign, there was a great cultural expansion, advances in industry, science, and communication, and the construction of …
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Emperor Constantine changed the face of the world: he restored the Roman Empire and transformed it into a Christian empire. His reign marked a turning point in the evolution of imperial power. In the Byzantine era, he became a symbol, which is why a number of emperors symbolically adopted the title “New Constantine.” Perhaps no …
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In the 1970s, when speaking about Christ in public was not only forbidden but also extremely dangerous, a professor at the University of Letters in Bucharest dared to include the Bible as a subject of study in her courses. She was one of the most important voices in Romanian culture. Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, who, toward the …
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In the time of the pious Greek Emperor Alexius and the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas, when the Christ-loving Grand Prince of Kiev, Vsevolod Yaroslavich, and Vladimir the Noble, his son, the lord of Chernigov, who later took the name Monomakh, there was an invasion by the Ismailis against the Greek dominion on the other side …
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