The prisons of Father Constantin Stoicescu
He was born on 29 January 1913 in Vintilă Vodă, Buzoi. After attending primary school in his native village (1920-1925), the young Stoicescu enrolled at the Theological Seminary in Buzău, graduating in 1934. He returned to his native village, where he worked as a woodcutter. He started a family and in 1937 he received the gift of the priesthood in the parish of Ploștina, Goidești, Buzău County. At the same time he continued his theological studies at the Faculty in Chernivtsi, attending only the examination sessions.