Fr. Ilie Cioruță (en)

Memories from prison

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen! What follows are the confessions of my life, the stirrings of my conscience as a priest confessor, for things that have always been, but especially for those that have come in recent years with the changes in the social and spiritual life of our Christian faith. They are things that happened in the home, in the house, in the destiny of every Romanian citizen after the war of 1939-1941; they are written in the history of the country by people who fought with weapons, […]

Hieromonk Ilie Cioruță from Cernica Monastery. A figure of the Romanian Paterikon

This hermit was born in the village of Vasile Alecsandri, Tulcea county, in a family with ten children. Orphaned by his parents, he attended the Theological Seminary in Constanța, then married, studied at the Faculty of Theology in Bucharest and became a priest in Ilfov County, pastoring several villages. Here he carried out an outstanding missionary work, with great zeal for Christ, receiving no payment for his services and doing much charity work with the poor and the sick. Between 1962 and 1964 he was imprisoned by the atheist regime for his zeal in the service of Christ’s Church. When […]