#the River Olt

The stone fountain commissioned by Bishop Filaret of Râmnic on 1 September 1784, on the banks of the River Olt, near the ford at Goranu, is examined from a historical, artistic and documentary perspective, with reference to the inscription in verse, the hierarch’s scholarly work and the vicissitudes of the monument, which was finally restored by His Eminence Varsanufie in 2015.

Voicu, the son of Catinca and Spirea – a former revolutionary from 1848 who had been imprisoned at Văcărești – sets off from Piscul Măgurii towards the Frăsinei Hermitage, across the River Olt, to ask Father Policarp to unlock a bag of sworn gold coins, an inheritance from his father, in order to buy back Greere’s Mill.

This article presents the hermit traditions of the Cozia Mountains and the lives of the Holy Monks Daniil the Hermit and Misail the Nacealnic, who lived as ascetics in caves beneath the Cozia cliff in the 17th century. A disciple of Daniil, Misail founded the Hermitage of Daniil and Misail, and their relics were laid in the foundations of the church built by Bishop Varlaam of Râmnic in 1676.