Frăsinei Monastery

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XIX) / 2025 Ilie Lăcătușu, a saint in the communist prisons Florin Epure

Priest Ilie Lăcătușu (1909–1983), originally from Vâlcea County, served as an Orthodox missionary in Transnistria and Odessa during the Second World War, and subsequently endured imprisonment in the forced-labour camps at Galeșu, Peninsula and Periprava during the Communist era. On 4 February 2025, he was officially canonised by the Romanian Patriarchate; his feast day is 22 July, and his incorrupt relics are housed at Giulești Cemetery in Bucharest.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XV) / 2023 Additional documentary evidence concerning the life and work of Saint Calinic of Cernica, Bishop of Râmnic Dr. Oana-Mădălina Popescu

The study presents previously unpublished documents from the Library of the Romanian Academy relating to Saint Calinic, covering the period of his abbotship at Cernica Monastery and his episcopate in Râmnic, including deeds, letters to the abbots Nicandru and Diomid, documents concerning the Pupăza estate and the baptism of the Jew Moise, as well as an analysis of the two types of seals of Cernica, dating from 1819 and 1842.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (IV) / 2017 Iosif Gafton of Râmnic Dan Ciachir

Bishop Iosif Gafton of Râmnic and Argeș is remembered through a personal encounter in the summer of 1983, at the age of 87, painting a portrait of a cultured hierarch with a fiery temperament and a remarkable gift for preaching. The article also touches upon the history of Frăsinei Monastery, founded by Saint Calinic of Cernica, the only monastery in Romania which, under the communist regime, maintained a ban on women’s entry, alongside several illustrative episodes relating to breaches of this rule.

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