Râmnicu Vâlcea | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XV) / 2023 Cetățuia Hermitage, a Bessarabian foundation set to be revived Prof. Dr. Florin Epure

The Cetățuia Hermitage, north of Râmnicu Vâlcea, possibly founded by Bessarabian patrons in the 15th–16th centuries, is examined from archaeological, historical and monastic perspectives, with a focus on the controversial site of the assassination of Voivode Radu of Afumați and his son Vlad in 1529, as well as on the stages of the monastery’s foundation and restoration, from Metropolitan Teodosie (1680) to the fresco painted by Gheorghe Tattarescu in 1854.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XII) / 2021 Bishop Antim Petrescu — the shortest tenure in the See of Râmnic (II) Rev. Dr. Laurențiu Rădoi

Bishop Antim Petrescu of Râmnic (1918–1919), elected in July 1918 and dismissed by government decree in November of the same year, carried out an intensive pastoral ministry in Oltenia, visiting parishes, supporting the construction and renovation of churches, and taking an active interest in the social issues facing the peasantry and war orphans, and leaving behind the memory of a self-sacrificing hierarch, as recalled by Nicolae Iorga, Gala Galaction and Archimandrite Iuliu Scriban.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XI) / 2021 Bishop Filaret’s stone fountain (1784) Prof. Dr. Florin Epure

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.

Studia Theologica No. II (VI) / 2018 New information about Saint Calinic’s relationship with other denominations Hieromonk Antim Motorga

This article analyses the correspondence of Saint Calinic of Râmnicu Vâlcea concerning relations with non-Orthodox denominations in the 19th century: the refusal to allow the construction of a Calvinist church in the centre of Craiova (1852), the rejection of the transfer of the Diocese’s land to the Franciscans (1855) and the denunciation of the sale of counterfeit icons by Austrian merchants (1863).

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