Abbot Pimen – “praying to God with deep faith”

Also in Aiud was Abbot Pimen of the Ialomicioarei cave hermitage, who had gone to prison with a group from Colonel Arsenescu’s organisation, accused of harbouring and helping them. He was small in stature, with a full face and suspicious eyes, with a not very communicative nature. Even here in prison, he lived according to the rituals and behaviour of monastic life. He had chosen a corner of his cell where he would retire in the morning, at noon and in the evening, so that the guard could not see him through the bean slot, and pray to God with deep faith.

(Ion Antohe, Hidden Crucifixions in Romania after Yalta, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1995, p. 339)