Hieromonk Emilian Gâțu, martyr for Christ during the communist regime
He was born into a family in which several members had taken on the monastic habit over time. He entered the monastery at the age of 12 and lived in several monasteries in Moldavia and Transylvania. On 15 May 1946, in Polovragi Monastery, he was canonically ordained by Abbot Veniamin Nicolae, who asked the Polovragi Monastery Council (Hieromonk Casian Sandu, Hieromonk Ieronim Anasa and Hieromonk Tit Moldovan) to allow him to become a deacon. On the 5th of December 1949, the High Ecclesiastic Protosingle Dionisie Popescu proposed him as a deacon, and on the 6th of December he was ordained […]