A prisoner with the air of a martyr[1]
A Confession of Faith In August 1948, the second group of political prisoners—mostly former convicts who had been students at the time of their arrest—was transferred from Aiud prison to Târgșor prison. Among them was Virgil Maxim, a former student of the Buzău Normal School, sentenced in 1941 by the […]
God is with us
“Who is the great God like our God? You are the God who works wonders!” (Psalm 76:13) Beloved brethren, for a long time I hesitated before making a final confession, fearing that the miracles I had witnessed might be profaned by the suspicion or unbelief of some. Yet the Spirit […]
“This young man was so pure that the rest of us young people pronounced his name with a real piousness considering him the saint of this prison
Maxim Virgil, from the commune of Sălciile, Prahova County, was sentenced to hard labor in 1942, during the regime of General Ion Antonescu. This young man was so pure in heart that the rest of us, also young at the time, spoke his name with genuine reverence, considering him the […]
The dream – the death of his wife
A week before my wife died, I had a dream. I was deep in prayer, asking the Mother of God to watch over my suffering wife’s soul and to let her share in the mercy of her Son. The Mother of God appeared before me, clothed in her royal mantle […]
The most famous confessors
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08 November
Pr. Pimen Bărbieru
43 years
since passing away -
10 November
Grigore Caraza
11 years
since passing away -
10 November
Pr. Nicolae Adam
66 years
since passing away -
11 November
Pr. Ioan Berghian
67 years
since passing away -
13 November
Acad. Constantin C. Giurescu
48 years
since passing away -
14 November
Ernest Bernea
35 years
since passing away -
17 November
Pr. Daniil Sandu Tudor
63 years
since passing away -
17 November
Aurelian State
42 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 […]
