Presbyter Iustina Constantinescu – fighter for truth and freedom
Born in the village of Poenărei-Muscel, Justina Constantinescu was born on 12 April 1912 into a peasant family: Grigore Grigorescu and Justina Poenăreanu – a descendant of successive generations of Orthodox priests, among whom the priest Grigorie Poenăreanu, “an outlaw priest from the mountains”, as Ion Ghica described him in one of his famous letters to Vasile Alecsandri [Bucharest, 1887], was a founding member of the Philharmonic Society of Wallachia in 1833. In 1928 Justina Grigorescu married the priest Ioan Gh. Constantinescu from Cerbureni, Argeș County, a graduate of the “Neagoe Voda” Theological Seminary in Curtea de Argeș. A role […]