Letter to my spiritual father
Last night I felt like I was passing out. I don’t know exactly where the disease came from, because most of my organs are affected. My life is slowly passing into eternal life. I had a restful night and woke up somewhat recovered, although a wave of death can be […]
“Through his songs, Fănică Tumurug managed to maintain the morale of the Romanian officers in the camp”.
I had him as a camp comrade beyond the Arctic Circle. Through his songs, Fănică Tumurug managed to keep up the morale of the Romanian officers in the camp. After 23 August 1944, unknown persons began to wander around the camp recruiting volunteers for the “Tudor Vladimirescu” division. Ana Pauker, […]
“In my life I have never met a more powerful personality than Fănică Tumurug”
In my life I have never met a more powerful and influential personality than the elder Fănică Tumurug. He was the one who pacified all the spirits, no matter how much they disagreed. Any quarrel or disagreement between prisoners was calmed by this man and the parties left him satisfied. […]
A nation is worth as much as it has embodied from the Gospel
Beloved Romanian brethren everywhere, Father Raphael Noica said that “man is what remains after the Judgment of Christ, not after the judgments of men.” On a much larger scale, i.e. that of the nation from which we all draw, the professor and scholar Simion Mehedinți spoke a truth as brief […]
The most famous confessors
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11 July
Pr. Ioan Duma
68 years
since passing away -
12 July
Dr. Ioan Simionescu
74 years
since passing away -
12 July
Gheorghe Ionescu
15 years
since passing away -
12 July
Aristide Lefa
16 years
since passing away -
12 July
Radu Mărculescu
14 years
since passing away -
12 July
Maria Andreescu
44 years
since passing away -
13 July
Lucia Popșor
15 years
since passing away -
16 July
Spiru Blănaru
76 years
since passing away -
16 July
Petre Domășneanu
76 years
since passing away -
17 July
Pr. Teofil Bădoiu
15 years
since passing away -
18 July
Pr. Ioan Constantinescu
66 years
since passing away -
18 July
Pr. Nicolae Andreescu
66 years
since passing away -
19 July
Pr. Ion Drăgoi
66 years
since passing away -
19 July
Pr. Arsenie Papacioc
14 years
since passing away -
19 July
Gheorghe Popescu
66 years
since passing away
Women in communist prisons
Martyrs in communist prisons bring people to Christ
Delia: “My life has changed radically since the mysterious encounter, through the world of books, with the Saints of prisons”
When I read about the campaign “Confessors in Communist Prisons Bring People to Christ”, I was moved and I realised that I belong to a blessed group, namely the group of those who have been brought to Christ by prison martyrs. It is only now that I understand that there […]
Constanța: “This book has remained in my heart as the most beautiful lesson in religion…”
We were in our final year of secondary school in 1996 when our Romanian language teacher, Elena Corbu, recommended that we read The Diary of Happiness by Nicolae Steinhardt. “You will have to read it with the dictionary beside you, and it won’t be easy for you to finish it, […]
Ștefan: “I came to the understanding that we have so many saints I didn’t know about, so many confessors!”
About how God has changed me and set me on the right path to boldly work His commandments and through Him glorify the Holy Confessors who suffered and endured persecutions and the fires of hell, hoping and believing in the One God, the Triune God, the Father and the Son […]
Diana: “Thanks to them we have the chance to rediscover our identity and to seek the path of our salvation”
Learning about the Confessing saints, reading about their deeds, their sufferings and their sacrifice in Christ, I felt that my soul had been made whole forever. Love for them was what I had lacked until I met them. In Aiud, on the ground consecrated with their blood, in front of […]
Lavinia: “Saints of the prisons are the soul of this country!”
The Saints of the communist prisons are the soul of this country. Our beloved saints have carried with them all the pain and all the love that only souls wounded by love for Christ can have. Beyond our ability to comprehend their earthly lives and the soul-crushing pain of what […]
Andreea: “Return to Christ” was the alarm clock that woke me up from the sleep of ignorance.
“Return to Christ” by Ioan Ianolide was the alarm that woke me up from the sleep of ignorance, it was the alarm that saved me from the tsunami of ideas and false knowledge. As I savoured this “Document for a New World”, I felt that I was indeed preparing myself […]
