Fr. Evghenie Hulea (en)

“That man had a gentleness and a discretion I cannot describe to you.”

Archim. Roman Braga: Before 1953, when I was at Canal, I found a great monk there. Through him, so to speak, God worked my conversion to monasticism. […] And God made me meet, in a brigade there, Father Evghenie Hulea, a simple monk, the abbot of a hermitage, Mușunoaiele, in Vrancea. This monk knew the ladder of St. John the Baptist by heart. I’m not exaggerating. He had read it so much in his life, from the time he was a novie in the monastery until he was so old, that even Catholic priests would come around him, as if […]

At Mușunoaiele, in the footsteps of Saint Evghenie Hulea

Fr. Evghenie Hulea, from the monastery of Mușunoaiele, was one of the most representative clergymen of the Church that fought against communism; the monk from the valley of Zăbrăuți is one of the “Saints of the prisons”. (…) The story of the Saint from Mușunoaiele is worth knowing for the generation born after 1989, which needs moral reference points in an amoral world. Situated in a corner of heaven, far away on the waters of Zăbrăuți, in a natural setting of enchanting beauty, the monastery of Mușunoaiele was the place where destiny sent Fr. Evghenie Hulea to encourage the bands […]

Father Evghenie – a humble monk, admired by everyone

At Canal we had a spiritual father, Fr. Evghenie, Abbot of Mușunoaiele… and he led me to become a monk, because I didn’t become a monk when I was young. (…) I became a monk when I was 34 years old, after my first imprisonment. I became a monk when I was 34 years old, after my first imprisonment; you must know that I also had a leave, I didn’t stay so long in prison, in Romania; they gave me a leave of 5 years, during which I was only arrested at Easter and Christmas; I didn’t spend Easter or […]