Hieromonk Pimen Bărbieru – the gentle “fool” of Christ
In 1955, the so-called “TB sanatorium” prison in Târgu-Ocna had the privilege of keeping behind its bars the famous hieromonk Pimen Bărbieru, abbot of the hermitage in Cetățeni commune, who was sentenced to 25 years of hard labour for having taken the oath of sacrifice of Colonel Arsenescu’s fighters and on some occasions hiding them. He had arrived with a large group of terminally ill people […]. When he arrived, Father Pimen weighed about 40 kilos, had suffered from haemoptysis several times and could barely feed himself. Communicative, gentle, with a lively conversation, full of confidence in the future, he […]