The official liturgical proclamation of the canonization of Venerable Paphnutius the Iconographer will take place this Sunday, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The glorification of the newest Romanian Orthodox saint will be celebrated at Robaia Monastery in the Archdiocese of Arge\u0219 and Muscel, following the Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n
The liturgical program will begin on Saturday, August 5, with the All-Night Vigil for the feast being celebrated at the monastery\u2019s summer altar. The Divine Liturgy will be celebrated the following day by a number of Romanian hierarchs, followed by the official proclamation of the canonization of the God-pleasing Paphnutius, P\u00e2rvu (Slavic \u041fp\u044a\u0432\u044a, meaning the first born child<\/em>) P\u00e2rvescu in the world.<\/p>\n The proclamation will include the reading of the official Synodal Tomos of canonization, the presentation of the icon of the new saint, and the intonation of his troparion. His official feast will be the following day, August 7.<\/p>\n As previously reported, a meeting of the Synod of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobrudja was held in late May, at which a number of documents were adopted in view of the future glorification of Monk Paphnutius (1657-1735). The metropolis\u2019 request was approved at the July 4-5 session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Church.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Iconographer P\u00e2rvu Mutu (1657-1735) was a representative of the so-called Br\u00e2ncovenesc style, which prevailed, in Romanian iconography in the end of the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries. He was the sixth son of an Orthodox priest, John P\u00e2rvescu. He began working as an artist-iconographer from the age of twelve. After the death of his wife, he was tonsured as a monk, taking the name Paphnutius.<\/p>\n \u201cHis designation as \u2018Mute\u2019 does not mean that he was truly quiet by character, but that his life was always adorned with prayer and silence,\u201d said Patriarch Daniel, emphasizing the particularity of St. Paphnutius\u2019 monastic labours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The official liturgical proclamation of the canonization of Venerable Paphnutius the Iconographer will take place this Sunday, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The glorification of the newest Romanian Orthodox saint will be celebrated at Robaia Monastery in the Archdiocese of Arge\u0219 and Muscel, following the Divine Liturgy. The liturgical program will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[59,7245,559,10274,10275,8209,3860,9033,10273,8208],"class_list":["post-173011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-canonization","tag-ceremony","tag-divine-liturgy","tag-icon","tag-orthodox-saint","tag-parvu-mutu","tag-proclamation","tag-romanian-saint","tag-troparion","tag-venerable-paphnutius-the-iconographer"],"yoast_head":"\n