Văcărești Monastery

Litterae No. I (VIII) / 2019 The Wonderful Land Virgil Oprescu Runceanu

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.

Theatrum No. I (V) / 2018 The Martyrdom of the Brâncoveanu Saints Rev. Prof. Dr. Codruț-Dumitru Scurtu

This three-act play depicts the martyrdom of the Brâncoveanu Saints: Constantin Vodă, his four sons and his adviser Ianache Văcărescu, who were executed in Constantinople on 15 August 1714 on the orders of Sultan Ahmed. The plot unfolds through the prophecy of the nun Platonida of Hurezi Monastery, Constantin’s dialogue with the Sultan on the banks of the Bosphorus and the testimony of the Venetian plenipotentiary Andreea Memno before Doge Giovanni II Corner, culminating in the reading of the Tomos of canonisation dated 20 June 1992.

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