{"id":569156,"date":"2026-04-29T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=569156"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:39:18","slug":"11-years-since-repose-father-roman-braga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/11-years-since-repose-father-roman-braga\/","title":{"rendered":"11 years since the repose of Archim. Roman Braga, confessor of the Jesus Prayer and witness through exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, April 29, marks 11 years since the repose of Archimandrite Roman Braga, the Bessarabian-born confessor who began practising the Jesus Prayer through the Burning Bush spiritual gatherings at Antim Monastery in Bucharest, endured communist imprisonment twice in Romania, and later served the Church in exile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in 1922 in Condri\u021ba, Bessarabia, Fr Roman entered C\u0103ld\u0103ru\u0219ani Monastery at just 12 years old. He later graduated in Bucharest from the Faculties of Theology (with magna cum laude honours) and Philosophy, as well as the Titu Maiorescu Pedagogical Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>In 1948, he was arrested and accused of ties to the Legionary movement \u2014 a charge for which no evidence was produced \u2014 and sentenced to five years of hard labour. He was imprisoned at Pite\u0219ti Prison and later in a forced labour colony on the Danube\u2013Black Sea Canal.<\/p>\n<h2>Secret Tonsure and Imprisonment in the Burning Bush Case<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569149\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_1-270x360.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fr. Roman Braga. Photo: Putna.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1954, Metropolitan Sebastian Rusan secretly tonsured him a monk and ordained him to the deaconate. But he was arrested again in 1959, when communist authorities opened the political investigation into the Burning Bush movement and discovered he had attended the spiritual meetings at Antim Monastery during his student years.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to 18 years of hard labour for \u201chostile activity against the regime,\u201d serving five years at Balta Alb\u0103 before being released in the 1964 general amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>After his release, he wandered through various dioceses and metropolises in Romania, often received with indifference or rejection. Bishop Valerian Zaharia of Oradea eventually succeeded in ordaining him to the priesthood. For a time, Fr Roman also worked in the diocesan archives.<\/p>\n<h2>Pilgrim in Romania and the Wider World<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569151\" style=\"width: 771px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_5.jpg 771w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_5-360x280.jpg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/articol_12_5-768x598.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Next to a future saint, also from Bessarabia, St. Sofian of Antim &#8211; at the &#8220;Dormition of the Theotokos&#8221; Monastery in Rives Junction, Michigan, USA. Photo: Putna.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From 1965 to 1968, he served in Negre\u0219ti, in \u021aara Oa\u0219ului, before being transferred to the parish of S\u00e2rbi near Oradea.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually sent as a missionary to Brazil, serving the Romanian community in S\u00e3o Paulo from 1968 to 1972.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, Bishop Valerian Trifa invited him to the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in America, also known as the Vatra Episcopate, in Grass Lake, Michigan. There, for seven years, he worked in children\u2019s religious education, translated spiritual texts, and adapted church chant into English.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1979 and 1983, he served in Youngstown, Ohio, and Southfield, Michigan. He then became the spiritual father of Transfiguration Monastery, founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/35-years-mother-alexandra-repose-princess-ileana-buried-romanian-soil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Alexandra<\/a> (Princess Ileana of Romania), where he served until 1988.<\/p>\n<p>That year, he retired to Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery, where his sister, Nun Benedicta, was abbess. He reposed in the Lord on 29 April 2015 after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2025, the Congress of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/basilica.en\/posts\/pfbid0EP3LqY5CnXwwm3JeQG1qAxHR5HwLNroQo7Db5ppkeDmfzvZfMNR527rx87YgFNPdl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forwarded a proposal<\/a> to the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America to canonise Father Roman Braga. The proposal was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oca.org\/news\/headline-news\/holy-synod-meets-for-regular-fall-2025-session\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviewed<\/a> later in November.<\/p>\n<h2>Teachings of Fr Roman Braga<\/h2>\n<p>Fr Roman Braga left behind a deeply personal and experiential spiritual teaching centred on inner prayer and living communion with God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must speak with Him. You must feel God within you, not outside yourself, not externally, but inwardly, in your heart, for our heart is infinite because Christ dwells there from Baptism. A person possesses infinite dimensions of personhood; in its unfathomable depth, the human person is eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConversation with God gives you this awareness of God\u2019s presence. Tell God when you are hungry, when you are thirsty. Tell God you are going to R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi. Tell God something along the road. Show God how beautiful the flowers are. Speak with God about everything. \u2018Lord, what should I do? I must do this and that; I am hungry, I am going to eat a piece of bread.\u2019 Keep these things in mind. They may seem childlike, but this conversation with God becomes prayer. For what is prayer? It is the unceasing communion of man with God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/doxologia.ro\/viata-arhimandritului-roman-braga\">Doxologia.ro<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.putna.ro\/ro\/iii-2010-cuvinte-catre-tineri\/Adevarata-rugaciune-nu-se-sfarseste-niciodata-E2-80-93-Interviu-cu-parintele-Roman-Braga-940\">Putna.ro<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto: Doxologia.ro<\/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>Wednesday, April 29, marks 11 years since the repose of Archimandrite Roman Braga, the Bessarabian-born confessor who began practising the Jesus Prayer through the Burning Bush spiritual gatherings at Antim Monastery in Bucharest, endured communist imprisonment twice in Romania, and later served the Church in exile. 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