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<p>The secret police archives present the life of the religious underground as seen by the secret officers who were seeking to facilitate those communities’ destruction. The state’s official narrative about these clandestine groups is mirrored in alternative documents and narratives. This article focuses on the Old Calendarist Orthodox monastic community of the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in the Strada Televiziunii in Bucharest at the end of the communist regime. It showcases the life of the monastery as described in the diary of a monastic novice whose written account of becoming a monk described the last days of the monastery before its destruction by the secret police in 1983.</p>
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The secret police archives present the life of the religious underground as seen by the secret officers who were seeking to facilitate those communities’ destruction. The state’s official narrative about these clandestine groups is mirrored in alternative documents and narratives. This article focuses on the Old Calendarist Orthodox monastic community of the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in the Strada Televiziunii in Bucharest at the end of the communist regime. It showcases the life of the monastery as described in the diary of a monastic novice whose written account of becoming a monk described the last days of the monastery before its destruction by the secret police in 1983.

Chronicling the Underground: The Diary of an Old Calendarist Monastic Brother

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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The secret police archives present the life of the religious underground as seen by the secret officers who were seeking to facilitate those communities’...

Chronicling the Underground: The Diary of an Old Calendarist Monastic Brother

Publié en ligne: 10 nov. 2022

Pages: 310 - 329

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2022-0107

Mots clés
Religious underground, Old Calendarists, Romanian communism, Romanian Orthodox Church, Evloghie Oţa

© 2022 Anca Șincan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Chronicling the Underground: The Diary of an Old Calendarist Monastic Brother

Publié en ligne: 10 nov. 2022

Pages: 310 - 329

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2022-0107

Mots clésReligious underground, Old Calendarists, Romanian communism, Romanian Orthodox Church, Evloghie Oţa

© 2022 Anca Șincan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Religious underground, Old Calendarists, Romanian communism, Romanian Orthodox Church, Evloghie Oţa