In 1933, photographic album “Romania” appeared in Leipzig, under the signature of photographer Kurt Hielscher, a fascinating album that would capture the atmosphere of the interwar years as few such albums did. Hielscher reported in a “Foreword” how he came to this album: “In 1931, I was invited by the Romanian Government to travel as …
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“Converting” the Orthodox in Transilvania to Greek Catholic Church In the late seventeenth century Habsburg Empire “converted” Orthodox Romanians in Transylvania to Greek Catholicism. The situation of Transylvanian Romanians was very heavy, according to “diploma” issued in Vienna by Leopold I, in 1691, which stipulated that only Hungarians, Saxons and Szeklers were the three “nations” …
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Doctor Galina Răduleanu is the daughter of Father Boris Răduleanu, confessor of the Communist prisons, and he has also been part of years of imprisonment. He shares some thoughts about the new ideological offensive to which our world is exposed. The word of a doctor is all the more important because, through the psychiatric profession …
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We are in the Centenary of the Great Union, so it is appropriate to take a look back at those who, with great sacrifices, even with the price of life, changed the course of history, succeeded in achieving the centuries-long temptation of the Romanians in Transylvania, mother, brothers over the mountains. In the run-up to …
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Symbol of anti-communist resistance in Vrancea, Father Marcu was born on November 28, 1906, in Poiana, the Vrancean village, in a family with a priestly tradition. He suffered martyrdom in communist prisons for 15 years and went to the Lord through a violent death. Great Orthodox lover and lover of nation, he is still one …
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September 1 marks the beginning of the new church year in the Orthodox Church. According to the Jewish tradition, it is now considered that God began the work of creating the world, and at that time the Savior Jesus Christ entered the synagogue, where he read the text of Isaiah’s prophecy, chapter 61, 1-2, sealing …
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The cause of death and affection suffered by poet Mihai Eminescu remained for more than a century a mystery and an inexhaustible source of theories and polemics. Over the last 20 years, specialists have come to the conclusion that Eminescu was the victim of a gross malpractice case. He was shot down by a faulty …
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We see in the Gospel that obedience is defined as a source of grace, as a source of peace in our hearts. Thomas lives what we all live, hears and does not believe, and then sees Christ and seems not to believe. Only when the dialogue with Christ begins, Thomas’s doubt is overcome, and Thomas …
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On March 27, 2018, a century has passed since the first event that gave rise to the Great Union: the Adoption by the Country Council of Chisinau of the Declaration of Unification of Bessarabia with Romania. Bessarabians had thus started their own revolution by affirming the desire to go on a different road than that …
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