Studia Humanitatis No. I (XXI) / 2026
Procession with the holy relics of Saint Gregory the Decapolite, Bucharest, 1765
Fr. Nicolae Moga During the plague epidemic in Bucharest (1764-1765), Prince Ștefan Mihai Racoviță and Metropolitan Grigorie II organised, on 1 May 1765, a procession with the relics of Saint Gregory the Decapolite, brought from Bistrița Monastery in Vâlcea; this event was recorded in a charter dated 23 May 1765, by which the monastery was granted significant tax privileges.