Three significant events in the autumn of 1955 — the liturgical canonisation of the first Romanian saints, the 70th anniversary of autocephaly, and the widespread veneration of saints with relics — are reconstructed on the basis of the chronicle in issue 11–12/1955 of the journal The Romanian Orthodox Church, written by the priest and professor Niculae Șerbănescu. The highlight was the canonisation of Saint Calinic at Cernica Monastery on Sunday, 23 October 1955, in the presence of Patriarch Justinian, foreign Orthodox delegations and an impressive crowd of the faithful.