The fate of the Bessarabian priest and historian Paul Mihail in the era of communist totalitarianism
“The longing for the homeland and the great pain he carried in his soul all his life, for the Romanian brothers on the other side of the Prut, torn from the bosom of the motherland made him write about Bessarabia, which proves its Romanianness and the continuity of the pure Romanian language, especially in the villages”. The distinguished historian and priest Paul Mihail was born on 29 June 1905 in the village of Cornova, in the former county of Orhei. He attended the Theological Seminary in Chișinău (1918-1926), the Faculty of Theology (1926-1930) and the Faculty of History in Iași […]