{"id":422573,"date":"2023-04-06T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=422573"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:42:10","slug":"100-year-old-priest-and-wwii-veteran-made-an-honorary-citizen-of-romanian-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/100-year-old-priest-and-wwii-veteran-made-an-honorary-citizen-of-romanian-town\/","title":{"rendered":"100-year-old priest and WWII veteran made an honorary citizen of Romanian town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recent centenarian Father Nicolae Diaconescu was declared an honorary citizen of Benge\u0219ti-Ciocadia, where he served as a priest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victor Geogia, the Mayor of Benge\u0219ti-Ciocadia commune, Octavian Moraru, the president of the National Association of War Veterans &#8211; \u201cTudor Vladimirescu\u201d Branch, Gorj county, and Colonel Gheorghe Andronescu went to Fr Nicolae\u2019s home to confer him the honorary citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Father Nicolae Diaconescu was sent to the front during the Second World War as soon as he completed the seminary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_422178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-422178\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/parintele-centenar-nicolae-diaconescu-din-balcesti-gorj-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-422178 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/parintele-centenar-nicolae-diaconescu-din-balcesti-gorj-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/parintele-centenar-nicolae-diaconescu-din-balcesti-gorj-2.jpg 970w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/parintele-centenar-nicolae-diaconescu-din-balcesti-gorj-2-890x668.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-422178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100-year-old priest and WWII veteran Nicolae Diaconescu was awarded the honorary citizenship of Benge\u0219ti Ciocadia commune on March 30, 2023. Photo: Pandurul.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 100-year-old priest gave the following advice to the younger generations: \u201cThey should be as they have to. They should love their homeland, love their nation, love everything that pursues the welfare of this country,\u201d the local publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandurul.ro\/articol\/veteran-de-razboi-sarbatorit-la-implinirea-varstei_160980.html\">Pandurul<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The priest is \u201cthe most well-known and respected man of B\u0103lce\u0219ti village, Bengesti Ciocadia commune,\u201d publicist Dorin Brozb\u0103 wrote on Facebook last month when the locals paid tribute to the priest on his 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Pandurul.ro<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent centenarian Father Nicolae Diaconescu was declared an honorary citizen of Benge\u0219ti-Ciocadia, where he served as a priest. Victor Geogia, the Mayor of Benge\u0219ti-Ciocadia commune, Octavian Moraru, the president of the National Association of War Veterans &#8211; \u201cTudor Vladimirescu\u201d Branch, Gorj county, and Colonel Gheorghe Andronescu went to Fr Nicolae\u2019s home to confer him the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":422177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[30207,10314,25178,30208],"class_list":["post-422573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-100-year-old-priest","tag-honorary-citizen","tag-second-world-war","tag-wwii-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}