21 March 1903 – Priest and theology professor ILARION FELEA was born in Valea Bradului, county of Hunedoara. Secondary school studies at Brad and Arad (1914-1922), higher studies at the Theological Academy in Sibiu (1922-1926), with a doctor’s degree at the Faculty of Theology of Bucharest (1939). Priest in Valea Bradului, in Arad-Șega, and with the Episcopal Cathedral of Arad (1927 – 1958), professor with the Theological Academy of Arad (1938 – 1948), editor to the eparchial newspaper “Church and School” (1939 – 1945). During the communist regime he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years of “forced labour” for having intrigued against the social order and intense activity against the working class and revolutionary movement”. Works: Christian conversion (1935); Crises of the Baptist heresy (1937); Repentance. Study of theological and psychological documentation (1939), Spirit of the Truth. Sermons (1943, awarded prize by the Romanian Academy); Religion of Love. Apologetic Sermons (1946); Holy Sacraments (1947). Posthumous: Religion of Culture (1994), The Heretics and Their Doctrine Deviations (1999); To Tabor (2007); hundreds of articles and sermons in the periodicals of the time, especially in Arad. He passed away on 18 September 1961, at the prison of Aiud.
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