Father Arsenie Praja, the hermit of the Apuseni Mountains
There are only a few Carpathian hermits whose lives still have witnesses. Arsenie Praja, better known as the “Hermit of the Apuseni”. Father Nicodim Dimulescu, of the Crasna monastery in Prahova County, who was his student, told us some of his memories and gave us some photos. Sometimes retired from the world, sometimes down among the people, Father Arsenie Praja is living proof that the measure of holiness can be reached even in our wandering times. The Apuseni Mountains have certainly remained a mysterious hearth of hermitages. From an unknown past, there have been and there still are, even if […]