Romanian Saints

Thousands flock to venerate Saint Parascheva’s relics in Iasi

Thousands of devotees flocked on Sunday to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi to venerate the incorrupt body of Saint Parascheva the New, considered the Patron Saint of Moldavia, over the Divine Liturgy celebrated by 22 hierarchs on the Saint’s feast day. Over 20,000 believers attended the Divine Liturgy, while other 11,000 queued to venerate the…

Oct 15, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Southern Bessarabia Bishop Veniamin commemorates soon-to-be-saint Dionisie Erhan on his 75th death anniversary

His Grace Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia officiated on Monday, Sept. 17, a memorial service for the rest of the soul of Ismail Bishop Dionisie Erhan, whose canonization process was recently initiated, on his 75th death anniversary. The Metropolis of Bessarabia has started the procedures for the canonization of Ismail Bishop Dionisie Erhan (1868-1943), who…

Sep 21, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolis of Bessarabia coming to promote the canonization of Ismail bishop Dionisie Erhan

The Metropolis of Bessarabia has started the procedures for the canonization of Ismail Bishop Dionisie Erhan (1868-1943), who was ordained to the episcopate in Iași in 1918, a short time after Romania’s Great Union took place. The demarches belong to the South Bessarabia Diocese of the Romanian Patriarchate as a result of the investigations made…

Sep 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Saint George the Pilgrim’s Sainthood locally proclaimed at Varatec Monastery

Saint George the Pilgrim’s sainthood was locally proclaimed Friday, August 17, during a ceremony held at Văratec Monastery, where the Saint’s holy relics are enshrined. The Lay-ascetic George Lazar ‘the Pilgrim’ (†1916) was glorified by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church during its working session on October 5, 2017. An additional local proclamation…

Aug 21, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan Teofan leads St George the Pilgrim’s canonization ceremony: He was a man of pure prayer

During the canonization ceremony of Saint George the Pilgrim that took place Saturday, June 22, at Targu Neamt, His Eminence Metropolitan Teofan said that the Romanian lay-ascetic was ‘a man of pure prayer, a shining diamond, and a mane of pure essence.’ The ascetic George Lazar reached dispassion, a state that every Christian should achieve,…

Jun 25, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Saint Joseph the Merciful – Son of Bessarabia and Spiritual Father of Moldavia

On the occasion of the local proclamation of the canonization of Saint Joseph the Merciful, Metropolitan of Moldavia, at his native village of Răzălăi, Sîngerei District, Republic of Moldova, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania conveyed a message in which he referred to the Saint as a Son of Bessarabia and a Spiritual Father of…

May 23, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

New Romanian Church to be built in Melbourne

A new church will be built at the Life-Giving Spring Monastery in Melbourne, Australia, that will be dedicated to three Romanian Saints, Bishop Mihail of Australia and New Zealand reported. The church will be built in the honour of Hieromartyr Teodosie of Brazi, Metropolitan of Moldavia, Saint Gregory the Teacher, Metropolitan of Wallachia, and Saint…

May 23, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Saints’ holy relics sent to Canada by Patriarch Daniel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel presented Wednesday His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada with particles of the holy relics of the Romanian Saints Gregory the Teacher and Constantine Brâncoveanu. Patriarch Daniel also offered Bp Ioan Casian a fragment of the vestment with which the holy relics of Saint Demetrius the New were covered. The gifts…

May 3, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Academy: Patriarch Daniel offers two Romanian Saints as symbol of 1918 Great Union

During the scientific session in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania that took place on 27 March 1918, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel spoke at the Romanian Academy about the newly-glorified Romanian Saints Joseph the Merciful and George the Pilgrim, offering them as a symbol of the 1918 Great Union. ‘Two Romanian…

Mar 27, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel to lead canonization ceremony for Sts Joseph the Merciful, George the Pilgrim in Iași

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will lead the solemn canonization ceremony for Saint Joseph the Merciful, Metropolitan of Moldavia, and Saint George the Pilgrim, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Numerous hierarchs, clerics and believers are expected to attend the ceremony. According to a press release of the Iași Archdiocese, Patriarch Daniel will be welcomed Saturday, March 24,…

Mar 16, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Russian Orthodox Church adds nine Romanian Saints to its calendar

During this year’s first working session held Wednesday at St Daniel Monastery in Moscow, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved the proposal of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, to add to the Russian Church calendar several saints glorified by the Romanian Orthodox Church…

Mar 8, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu