#Hrisant Penetis

Archimandrite Chrysant Penetis, a Greek by birth from Andros and abbot of Hurezi Monastery, drew up on 1 January 1850 two wills adorned with miniature icons — the Transfiguration for the Greek church in Sibiu and the Holy Trinity for the Ciorogârla-Samurcășești hermitage —, bequeathing to them revenues from Mount Cocora and from a storehouse in the port of Brăila. The study publishes transcriptions and facsimiles of the two documents, analysing the clergyman’s personality, the content of the bequests, the iconography of the miniatures and the place of these documents within the typology of Romanian charters decorated with images of saints.

The article reconstructs the robbery of the Surpatele Hermitage in Vâlcea County on the night of 10–11 September 1839 and the death of Abbess Elisabeta as a result of the beatings she received at the hands of the seven robbers, by transcribing and commenting on the documents from the ‘Delă atingătoare’ file concerning the robbers who murdered the late Elisabeta Surpăteanca, the abbess, held at the Central National Historical Archives, which reveal the identity of the attackers, their modus operandi and the correspondence between Archimandrite Hrisant of Hurezi, Abbess Platonida and the authorities of Vâlcea County.