{"id":519456,"date":"2025-03-24T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=519456"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:16:23","slug":"macedo-romanian-martyrs-commemorated-bucharest-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/macedo-romanian-martyrs-commemorated-bucharest-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedo-Romanian martyrs and Orthodox priest remembered at historic Bucharest church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the Sunday of the Holy Cross, the Aromanian martyrs of the Balkans and Priest Haralambie Balamace were commemorated at the \u201cLife-Giving Spring\u201d \u2013 Mavrogheni Church in Bucharest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The memorial service was held at the end of the Divine Liturgy and was officiated by Fr. Ioan Jucan, concelebrant priest at the \u201cLife-Giving Spring\u201d \u2013 Mavrogheni Church, alongside Fr. Radu Petre Mure\u0219an, the parish priest of the community.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the Mavrogheni Church hosts a commemoration of the Aromanian martyrs of the Balkans, as it is believed that Prince Nicolae Petru Mavrogheni, the church\u2019s founder, was of Koutsovlach origin. The church also houses a relic of Saint Andrew \u0218aguna, one of the most prominent figures of the Aromanian community in Romania.<\/p>\n<h2>Martyrs of Romanian Identity in the Balkan Peninsula<\/h2>\n<p>Priest Haralambie Balamace was killed on the night of Pascha, March 23, 1914, for celebrating the service in the Romanian language. A similar fate befell some 1,000 Romanians from the Balkans \u2013 teachers, professors, priests, and students \u2013 who were persecuted and killed for defending their Romanian identity and serving their communities in Romanian, the Aromanian dialect, or the Meglenitic dialect.<\/p>\n<p>Father Balamace played a crucial role in developing Romanian education among the Macedo-Romanians of Epirus and Albania, also contributing to the ecclesiastical emancipation of the Romanians in the Balkans. For his merits, he was declared a national hero of Albania in 1972.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3Dpfbid0Mb6DEwFLkBwa5TcXCiZgLgSNQbYzbrcqeKJYA8opK3gTqhEQqbTXDRZ8FDTqSRstl%26id%3D100066897172352&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"678\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Macedonian-Romanian Cultural Society \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasilicaNews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495171\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif 889w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1024x171.gif 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1536x256.gif 1536w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-2048x341.gif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Sunday of the Holy Cross, the Aromanian martyrs of the Balkans and Priest Haralambie Balamace were commemorated at the \u201cLife-Giving Spring\u201d \u2013 Mavrogheni Church in Bucharest. The memorial service was held at the end of the Divine Liturgy and was officiated by Fr. Ioan Jucan, concelebrant priest at the \u201cLife-Giving Spring\u201d \u2013 Mavrogheni&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26751],"tags":[34665,25566,34664,27415,549,34507,32502,25710],"class_list":["post-519456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucharest-archdiocese","tag-balkan","tag-haralambie-balamace-en","tag-macedo-romanian","tag-macedo-romanian-martyrs","tag-memorial-service","tag-religious-persecution","tag-romanian-identity","tag-romanians-from-the-balkans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519456","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=519456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}