“Then I was acting as Nicolae Ceaușescu’s confessor with those letters”
Sorin Dumitrescu: Archimandrite Mina, I would like you to remember the face of Nicolae Steinhardt, to recall him as Your Beatitude knew him in prison. What kind of man was he? Father Mina: Professor, this is a question that puts me in the position of having to start from the beginning, to remember the moment when I first met Mr. Nicolae Steinhardt… I was in the Jilava prison, already sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and confined to a cell, cell 18. When I entered, there was only one prisoner there, but soon it became overcrowded, they put bunk beds there […]