Fr. Iosif Coriolan Buracu (en)

Father Coriolan Buracu’s sufferings during the 1946 elections

On election day [in 1946], order had to be maintained by two groups of soldiers led by a captain. With all due respect to the military uniform in the villages, it never occurred to anyone that underneath the military coat were Communists from Brăila, and that the ‘captain’ was nothing more than a Communist Party activist. The elections took place quietly. People from the surrounding villages came cheerfully. There was only one sign: “The eye”. The voting ended late in the evening. The P.N.T. representative was Coriolan Buracu, a retired military priest. I had known the priest for a long […]

Fr. Iosif Coriolan Buracu – biography of a great Romanian

Great, beautiful, full of grace, shattering are the deeds and the life of the servant of the Lord, the priest Iosif Coriolan Buracu. He was born on 15 May 1888 in Prigor, Caras-Severin County, the son of a Macedonian-Romanian family. He attended primary school, classes I-III in Budapest and IV-V in Vienna, high school in Brașov and the Theological Institute in Caransebeș. He married Mărioara M. Mocanu, a beautiful, educated girl from a wealthy family, who had been educated at the German Gymnasium in Brașov and then at the Notre-Dame de Sion boarding school in Galați. Coriolan Buracu tried to […]

Memories about Father Coriolan Buracu

Father Coriolan Buracu was one of the great personalities of the Almăjului Valley in the mountainous region of Banat. His achievements were in the fields of pastoral, culture and the promotion of Romanian ideals. There are a number of studies and articles that have presented the work of Father Coriolan Buracu, and others will undoubtedly follow. In what follows, I will only present some personal memories related to this great personality of the Almăj Valley, but also to his family. These memories are linked to documents kept in the Boldea House in Borlovenii-Vechi and in the collective memory of my […]

Fr. Iosif Coriolan Buracu and the life of Almăj

The priest and historian Coriolan Buracu, descendant of an old Grănicerească family, was born on 15 May 1888 in the village of Prigor, Valea Almăjului. He acquired his intellectual wealth in elementary schools in Budapest and Vienna, in high schools in Blaj and Brașov, and at the Theological Institute in Caransebeș. From the very beginning, through his speeches and writings, he fought for the political and social rights of the Romanians, for the liberation of Banat from Habsburg domination and for its unification with Romania. Since his youth, he was also concerned about the cultural situation of the Romanians in […]