11 June 1831 – Priest VARTOLOMEU BAIULESCU, with historical and ecumenical preoccupation was born in Zâmești, county of Brașov. Studies at the Roman-Catholic Gymnasium of Brașov (1845 – 1849) and at the Clerical School of Sibiu (1849 – 1850), teacher of the Orthodox students at the schools of the Saxons of Transylvania (1864 – 1886), teacher at the Superior School of trade and at the Real School (1869 – 1898), teacher at the Gymnasium of “Andrei Șaguna” (1877 – 1898), all the three of them in Brașov, schools supervised by the Church. He built the church of the “Falling Asleep” and the parochial house in Brașov-Cetate (1895-1896) by his own efforts. He wrote “The Monograph of the Parish of the Holy Falling Asleep” of Brașov – Cetate (1898) and a series of economical articles in the Romanian periodicals of the time. He unfolded a substantial activity for the emancipation of the Romanian in Brașov, especially of the craftsmen; he founded the “Association for supporting the Romanian craftsmen, pupils and apprentices”, having been its first president (1870 – 1884). He printed with his own expense the book “The Romanian Craftsman, magazine of teaching for all the craftsmen and lovers of this job” (1886 – 1889), the first one with this profile; he set up the Association of credit and savings of the “Romanian Craftsman” (1887-1894), always militating for promoting craftsmanship with the Romanians. He passed away on 14 June 1909, in Brașov.
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