Fr. Ioan Boboc (en)

Father John Boboc was a prince laden with graces

The more you know and understand, the more you are obliged to witness. Like St. John the Baptist, each person “came into the world to bear witness” to something, and especially to someone (cf. Jn 1:6-7). I will never have the time or the strength to bear witness to “all the joys the Lord has given me” (Ps. 115), but I cannot rest until I have given witness, albeit inadequately, to an extraordinary Christian existence that for a time illuminated one of the purest Romanian lands – the subcarpathian hills of Buzău. After many years of deliberate oblivion, the face […]

“Father John Stephen Boboc was a saint undaunted by all the vicissitudes he went through”

In 1943 I spent my Easter holidays in Cislău, Buzău County. One day a young priest came into the courtyard of the post office where I lived. As a student in the first year of the Buzău Theological Seminary, I was naturally attracted by the person of a priest. When I asked, I found out that the one who had passed by was Fr. Ioan Șt. Boboc from the parish of Bărăști – Scărișoara. In a few minutes I felt that I had seen a servant of the Lord who seemed different from the others. Although I was still a […]