Protopope Dr. Florea Mureșanu lived in times that demanded sacrifices from the Orthodox Church. (…) Through its clergy, the Church carried the Cross of Christ even in the Romanian Gulag during the atheistic-Stalinist-Communist regime, where the most worthy of our people were exterminated.
The Securitate files – this “Pandora’s box” left as a legacy from the darkest period in the history of the Romanian people – constitute a truly demonic universe. Anyone who enters this universe without being aware of this fact is exposed to immense dangers that can shake his very spiritual foundations. Lies, falsehood, slander, misinformation, manipulation, hatred, violence, the search for and exploitation of any weakness in order to morally and physically destroy any opposition – real or imagined – and much more, are the laws by which this universe is governed. That is why, in the hands of the […]
Among the many of our people who have sacrificed their lives in the past decades during the communist-Stalinist campaign to exterminate the values of the nation, the cohort of priests and monks who paid with their lives for the courage to stand at the head of the tormented people, who, in the face of the offensive to implant atheism in the country, resisted silently and patiently, but stubbornly, with faith in God and the hope of salvation. Many clergy perished, but many more remained to guide the people with wisdom on the path of faith, love and hope in the […]
We no longer wear leg chains. They were taken off when we arrived in Aiud. The ten days of quarantine gave us time to recover a little, but above all to collect our thoughts, to take stock of our suffering […]. Once in our new “cell” on the first floor, we were astonished to find, after a brief identification, that all of us, absolutely all of us, were either former legionnaires or had been convicted of some connection with the Iron Guard. […]
“Father Florea Mureșan was a man of chosen humanity, with great authority, a man of prayer, work and sacrifice for Christ… In prison, in unbearable conditions, seeing that one dies today, another tomorrow, he promised that if he escaped alive, he would build an altar to the Lord. After two years of searching, he found a suitable place to build the altar he had promised, in the clearing on the hill of Breaza… He planted in me the love of Christ… Since 1990, as a true disciple, I have continued the work begun by Father Florea, rebuilding the Monastery of […]
In the autumn of 1945, King Ferdinand University returned to Cluj. Transylvania had been liberated from Hungarian occupation, the front was advancing towards Berlin, many young people had been demobilised and poured into the lecture halls, some to begin, others to complete their interrupted studies. (…) Victor Papilian had re-established his old literary circle, whose meetings were held, for lack of a better place, in the hospitable and spacious house of Father Florea Mureșan, a priest of exceptional character, a scholar, the author of an introduction to Varlaam, the owner of a rich library of general knowledge. His wife, Eugenia […]
In 1952, Florea Mureșan, a prominent Orthodox priest in Cluj, began his ordeal. He had distinguished himself through his zeal for authentic altar service, his dedication to the souls under his care, and his cultural concerns. These qualities inevitably brought him into conflict with the communist authorities, who detained him administratively at the Canal between 1952 and 1953. Father Florea Mureșan was deeply affected by his prison experience. He made a promise in his prayers that if he survived, he would erect an altar to the Lord in praise and thanksgiving. After his release in 1953, Father Mureșan was refused […]
