“The man closest to perfection I have ever known”
At that time, Aiud had a few modest workshops, mainly for the work of the common people, which were emphatically called factories. There was a workshop that repaired the carts of the prisoners, but also those of the peasants from the neighbouring villages who wanted to use its services. There […]
Nichifor Crainic, an accomplished orator in every field
Nichifor Crainic was a treasure, a vast storehouse of the purest grey matter. So many things from him have remained in my memory that have served to erase a good part of the suffering that has accompanied me all my life. One day, sitting at his desk, he told us […]
Nichifor Crainic, professor of mysticism in Aiud’s Zarca
I longed to be with Nichifor Crainic. His cultural prestige was immense. I regularly read “Gândirea”, the best magazine he published between the two wars. He was also a professor of mysticism at the Faculty of Theology in Bucharest. Here I was with him, but not alone. There was also […]
Mircea Vulcănescu, “one of the encyclopaedic geniuses of Romanian culture and a practitioner of the Christian life”
I had Mircea Vulcănescu as a professor of ethics at the University of Bucharest during my undergraduate studies. His Saturday afternoon lectures were full of dynamism and originality. He came to the lectures with handouts, organised by problems and structured by essentials, but the presentation and the course were made […]
The most famous confessors
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14 March
Pr. Gheorghe Opriș
20 years
since passing away -
19 March
Virgil Maxim
28 years
since passing away -
22 March
Ilie Tudor
10 years
since passing away -
23 March
Pr. Dumitru Mihăilescu
75 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 […]
