“The face of Professor Mironescu has remained with me as a harmonious achievement of a Romanian intellectual”
When I lived in the monastic oblast of St. Antim Monastery – Bucharest between 1942 and 1950, I met Prof. Al. Mironescu, in the spiritual movement of the “Burning Bush” of this monastery. He often attended the Holy Masses of the monastery with his wife Maria and their two children Șerban and Ileana, and actively participated in the spiritual conversations with friends and monks of the monastery. We admired his resolute, clear and precise language.
But the professor also continued the spiritual conversations in the intimate family environment, together with friends and parents who had improved themselves in the holy monasteries, discussing the fundamental themes of the Christian life: spiritual perfection, the life of prayer, salvation, which for him were the serious problems of life.
The face of Prof. Mironescu has remained with me as the harmonious achievement of a Romanian intellectual: a man with a thorough scientific culture, a faithful son of the Orthodox Church and a lover of the cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people, which he himself enriched with his work. His scientific and spiritual works, including The Limits of Scientific Knowledge, Certainty and Truth and The Philokalic Poems, are eloquent testimonies to this.
(Hiromonk Petroniu Tănase, 10 January 1993 – Alexandru Mironescu. Centenary of his birth 1903-2003, edited by Ileanea Mironescu, Enciclopedica Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003, p. 105)