{"id":86613,"date":"2023-04-16T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chilieathonita.ro\/?p=86613"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:23:12","slug":"the-martyrs-and-saints-of-the-prisons-miracles-stories-gheorghe-axinte-fr-theologos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chilieathonita.ro\/en\/2023\/04\/16\/the-martyrs-and-saints-of-the-prisons-miracles-stories-gheorghe-axinte-fr-theologos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Martyrs and Saints of the Prisons: Miracles, Stories \u2013 Gheorghe Axinte, Fr. Theologos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to a warm discussion in which Gheorghe Axinte and Father Theologos share testimonies and miracles of the Romanian martyrs and saints from the prisons\u2014testimonies meant to deepen our reverence towards them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"amara-embed\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZawPcgdMDrg\" data-initial-language=\"en\" data-show-subtitles-default=\"true\" data-team=\"o-chilie-athonita\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/amara.org\/embedder-iframe\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. Theologos: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and unto the ages of ages. Amen. Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us! Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear ones, we are, once again, with Gheorghe Axinte. I hope you have seen the other podcast; if you haven\u2019t, I will give a brief introduction: Gheorghe Axinte is, first of all, a person that&#8217;s very dear to me, because of his character, number one, and number two, because he is the administrator, or I don\u2019t know what to call him, of the Pite\u0219ti prison\u2014the former prison, or I don\u2019t know how to call it, in any case, the place where, in my opinion, the greatest treasure in Romania exists, meaning the most grace in Romania, because many Romanian martyrs died there during the communist era. There are some very great saints there, and whenever I find a moment, an opportunity, I always try to promote these great saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? Because, brethren, as I said, it is our wealth, our treasure, and unfortunately, we tend to renounce our treasure, we forget about it, and because of that, although we are actually very rich as a nation, in everyday life we are very, very poor. Why? Because we do not use this treasure. So, because of that, many of us believe that we are poor, that we are a sold-out country, and so on. Now, I do not want to get into politics, especially since I am not skilled in such matters and I don\u2019t think it is appropriate, but what matters most is, as I said, the spiritual side because the soul is greater than the body. And on the spiritual side, we are very, very rich. Now I would ask Mr. Gheorghe&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gheorghe Axinte: Brother\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Brother Gheorghe, please tell us a little about the evidence of the wealth of the Romanian saints from the prisons\u2014events, miracles, anything, absolutely anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, it is\u2026 Good evening, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Right, please forgive me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: It is difficult for me to speak about such people, because maybe those who do not know what happened in Pite\u0219ti can talk, but those who know what happened in Pite\u0219ti, I believe, should not speak about what happened there\u2026 Well, we could say that the first\u2026 we had Mr. Manciu here \u2013 Father Ghedeon, who came to Colciu and became a monk. He has passed on to the Lord a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He was one of the confessors who went through Pite\u0219ti, few people know, I believe. We should know that he is a pillar of Orthodoxy \u2013 right? \u2013 Romanian Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T: Yes, yes, absolutely, absolutely&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Mr. Gelu Gheorghiu recounted \u2013 I met him at the end of his life \u2013 he recounted that when \u021aurcanu, the one who handled all the evil that happened in Pite\u0219ti prison, when he would enter their room, their cell, and our saint, Ghedeon, looked at him, \u021aurcanu would simply leave the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He could not bear the gaze, he wasn&#8217;t tall\u2014he wasn&#8217;t tall in stature&#8230; He was about one meter and probably 65 \u2013 70 centimeters. Mr. Gheorghiu wasn&#8217;t a tall man either. He was a bit more robust, but at that moment, when he entered, and this Mr. Manciu\u2014this father Ghedeon looked him in the eyes, \u021aurcanu fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: He fled\u2026 Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: You can imagine what power he had in his gaze!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Just as we talk about prayer, since we were in the Holy Week of the Great Lent and had the prayer\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: What didn&#8217;t we have? [We had everything].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: That\u2019s right. I started with Fr. Ghedeon because we are on the Holy Mountain and we started from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: There are many who went through Pite\u0219ti, if we talk about St. Valeriu Gafencu&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Who also went through the Pite\u0219ti prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, sanctified today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He is a saint for us&#8230; He passed away from this life in T\u00e2rgu Ocna. We have a testimony at our chapel, about how holy St. Valeriu is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Can you tell the story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes. It&#8217;s better for those who listen to come and see what is there and they will find out&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: We ask you very much to go to Pite\u0219ti to see! Because beyond the exhibits, there is the spirit, the grace of that place. Please continue! Tell us about the testimony&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: You know we talked before, someone from America told me, Father Ghi\u021b\u0103 Calciu, at one point, was in Bucharest, sick, towards the last period of his earthly life. And while he was in America, in California, there were some nuns who were under his obedience. He told them about Romania. They had a small church there, a little non-compliant with what it should be like in order to stay in it, and they received blessing and moved elsewhere. I can&#8217;t remember now, but if I&#8217;m not mistaken, it was where father \u2013 our famous father who passed to the Lord \u2013 the disciple of Saint Joseph the Hesychast was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Ephraim of Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: They left for Arizona. And in Arizona, of course, Father Ephraim was their spiritual father, he took them under his care and they built a small church there. They wanted to make an iconostasis like the one we have behind us. Eventually, they came to Romania, said they found a \u201cvillage\u201d called Neam\u021b \u2013 although we know it\u2019s not a village \u2013 and they made the iconostasis and, while traveling through Romania, they received holy relics from the saints of the communist prisons. They didn\u2019t know where they were from, they didn\u2019t know who they were\u2014unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They heard that Father Ghi\u021b\u0103 Calciu was at the hospital in Bucharest and they went there, received his blessing, but before they arrived, Father Ghi\u021b\u0103 Calciu said: \u201cHow could Constantin Opri\u0219an come to me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: The nuns said, \u201cBut who&#8217;s Constantin Opri\u0219an? We don\u2019t know, we received some\u2026\u201d They thought [Fr. Ghi\u021b\u0103 Calciu] was greeting them, but anyway\u2026 And then Fr. Ghi\u021b\u0103 Calciu told them who St. Constantin Opri\u0219an was. [The nuns] came and said: \u201cWe received some holy relics indeed, but we don\u2019t know who they are. They are unknown saints.\u201d And, look, a revelation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: A revelation! Constantin Opri\u0219an, the great\u2026 Speaking of which\u2014don\u2019t forget your stories\u2014someone else also took relics, but this time from Aiud \u2013 if I\u2019m not mistaken \u2013 and these relics also emitted an extraordinary fragrance. And the man went to England because that\u2019s where he was living, and he kept praying, \u201cBut who are you?!\u201d The relics had a great grace and an extraordinary fragrance. And after I don\u2019t know how many weeks of prayer with tears, fasting, and everything else, Mircea Vulc\u0103nescu appeared to him in a vision and said: \u201cIt\u2019s me.\u201d Yes, the great Romanian philosopher\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Extraordinary\u2026 The saints work miracles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: They work miracles, yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: They work miracles! We don\u2019t know how to see that the saints work miracles at every step, of course they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: We don\u2019t open ourselves up [to see it].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: We don\u2019t open ourselves up, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Do young people come there? What happens? Because I know there is a great layer of misinformation regarding all these saints. They try to put a lid on them, they try to slander them, that they were in all sorts of ways and so on. How could we promote them to young people or to other people who don\u2019t know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Certainly, by using the internet, using YouTube, using technology\u2026 these phones that do everything\u2026 I think that\u2019s how we could promote them, but it is also a gift from God, but it is a gift with strings attached. At Pite\u0219ti, those who take care of the Pite\u0219ti Prison Memorial are young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really? Glory to God! We are glad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: They are young people. Maria Axinte, she bears my name, but she is a child who graduated in London, and came to Romania to take care of the Pite\u0219ti Prison Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And she is indeed successfully managing it, I mean, I see that she organizes events \u2013 she holds the summer school every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: You have a summer school, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: We have a summer school. Next week, they have an event because on March 9 we commemorate the holy confessors and Heroes\u2019 Day. There are two celebrations. First, we have the heroes whom we always celebrate on March 9, and at the same time, we also celebrate the day of the saints from the prisons, those who suffered in the communist prisons. And then, there will be an exhibition, the Divine Liturgy will be served in the morning. We already frequently serve the Divine Liturgy at the memorial, in &#8220;Hospital Room 4&#8221; \u2013 where all the horrors and everything that happened took place, the entire phenomenon of re-education through torture, starvation, and everything that was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, and I think that it truly was a phenomenon of re-education, but not in the way they thought, rather a re-education, an elevation of the nation, which today\u2026 I see that it is not really promoted, not really used, so to speak, not exploited in the good sense of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, I met Mr. Tache Rodas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: How was that? You must tell us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Mr. Tache Rodas was a wonderful man, he was&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: I understand that he was the only one who resisted, meaning the only one who didn&#8217;t whimper, who didn&#8217;t say a word, who&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, many tell that when they were beaten, they simply felt nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really? Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes. They did not feel the beating. If I am not mistaken, even Mr. Tache said that many times he did not feel it. Marcel Petri\u0219or recounts \u2013 may God rest his soul, as well as Mr. Tache Rodas, may God rest them! Mr. Marcel Petri\u0219or always humorously recounted how he received 25 lashes on his backside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really? Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And they used to joke about this, just so you see what&#8230; they were still playing, they were young. And they used to say: &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s see how many it takes before you cry out!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: I mean, imagine, they would hit you with a hose and you had nothing to cover your back\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And they would also throw water all over your back, and when they hit you with the cable, there was a wire rope, and at the end of it, there was a screw, and when the screw reached you, it would tear the flesh off you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And he said: &#8220;Well, I endured a few, and then I started to scream because I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, oh, Lord!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: You can imagine that afterwards, they couldn\u2019t sit on a chair, they could only stand, what was happening there was\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: But let&#8217;s get back to Mr. Tache Rodas. He was of Greek descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Aromanian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Aromanian, yes. His grandfather is St. Chrysostomos [of Smyrna], if I&#8217;m not mistaken. I might be wrong, and if I am, please forgive me! [The saint is Mr. Tache&#8217;s grandfather&#8217;s brother]. But anyway, he recounted that his grandfather is a saint listed in the calendar&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Seriously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, from Constantinople. Mr. Tache Rodas, that\u2019s true, he was very steadfast, very strong, with a very strong character, but also a very good man. They beat him at Aiud, I think, or at Gherla. I think it was Gherla. I don\u2019t know, I am not well-read. I absolutely cannot read the books written by martyrs and about martyrs. I can tell you, I can declare that I came to the Holy Mountain with Mr. Marcel Petri\u0219or, I shared a room with him, and he said: \u201cHow come, master, you can\u2019t read?\u201d That\u2019s what he called me, \u201cMaster.&#8221; &#8220;You can\u2019t read my book?&#8221; I said: \u201cMarcel, now that you\u2019re here, let\u2019s try!\u201d I read the first page, and when I got to the second, I closed it. \u201cWhat happened?\u201d \u201cNothing happened, but I can\u2019t read what\u2019s written here!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: \u201cBut if that\u2019s how it happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat do you mean, &#8216;that\u2019s how it happened&#8217;?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u2026 Let\u2019s get back to Mr. Tache Rodas. They beat him on the head with a wet rope until they destroyed one of his ears. He prayed to the Mother of God not to go insane. \u201cMother of God, please help me not to go insane!\u201d And the Mother of God performed a miracle with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He didn\u2019t go insane. That\u2019s because there, in the prison where he ended up, he told what happened at Pite\u0219ti and the commanders, of course, found out and then they punished him. So, they would take him from cell to cell, with a sack over his head. When he arrived in the cell, they would lift the sack and he was forced to say, \u201cWhoever does like me, may they suffer like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: So you can only imagine what was there\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: And above all, we have to tell the listeners that beating someone on the head is one of the cruelest and most certain ways to drive someone insane. The moment they hit you and you can\u2019t defend yourself and it never ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And what do you know? After he got out of prison, he married a party secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Mrs. Matilda was the head of the party, the most powerful in Ploie\u0219ti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Seriously? And how? I mean&#8230; [It was] from God&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: [It was] from God. She liked him and married him, \u201cThis one is mine, my T\u0103chi\u021b\u0103,&#8221; that\u2019s what she always called him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really? Glory to God! But didn\u2019t she have any trouble? Didn\u2019t she\u2026 I don\u2019t know what to say\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: She said, \u201cI had to marry this one.\u201d They got married back then at the Ghighiu Monastery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: At the monastery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: At Ghighiu, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really? The party secretary&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: The party secretary dressed nicely and went to the monastery with the former political prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Whom she&#8217;d beaten&#8230; [not personally]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Whom she&#8217;d beaten, yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Mr. Tache came to us many times, we got to know each other very well, he passed to the Lord from Aiud, from Fr. Gavriil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Father Gavriil, when he talks about Mr. Tache, has tears in his eyes. Many miracles happened there while Mr. Tache was alive. And it can&#8217;t be any other way. First Mrs. Matilda passed away and then Mr. Tache passed away\u2014and look\u2014he lived over 90 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: With all the beatings and everything else\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: &#8230;The torments, because we are talking about unimaginable torments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: You can&#8217;t imagine, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: How do you see, how do you compare the people back then with the ones today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Well, I&#8217;ll tell you about myself, right? How could I talk about someone else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m asking you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Well, if we walk down the street and you look at me, I&#8217;ll say, &#8220;What\u2019s your problem with me, sir?&#8221; or if you say something I don\u2019t like, I\u2019m the one that&#8217;s right, right away. How not? It\u2019s not like here \u2013 obedience, [always], &#8220;May the Lord help us! Forgive me!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, I think that nowadays people can no longer endure anything, they have absolutely no patience left. They can no longer humble themselves, we can no longer humble ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, because we don\u2019t understand the meaning of grace. We all have grace, God gave grace to all of us at baptism and then through all the mysteries that are performed, but we don\u2019t understand it. We are too proud, we don\u2019t know how to humble ourselves. I notice in the media how it&#8217;s written \u2013 &#8220;I am proud of what I have done!&#8221; Our Lord Jesus Christ never said He was proud!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, of what He has done&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And I believe He has done\u2026 I mean, not \u201cI believe He has done\u201d \u2013 forgive me, Lord! \u2013 because He has indeed done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: I believe He was the only one Who did something in the entire history of mankind, and only those who were connected to our Lord Jesus Christ also did something in the history of mankind. From there on, whatever\u2026 stones and so on\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Amen. I met a very good engineer, who&#8230; I can\u2019t recall his name now, I haven\u2019t thought about him in a while and now I\u2019ve forgotten\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: It doesn&#8217;t matter&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: There were two engineers: one was a design engineer in Pite\u0219ti, he returned to prison as a design engineer and was imprisoned in Pite\u0219ti and you can imagine that after that he came to work at this unit that was established after &#8217;77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Oh, really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: At the construction trust, he was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Oh, I understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: His name is Constantin, but I can\u2019t remember the last name\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: It doesn&#8217;t matter&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: The other one is Iulian Constantin. This man designed the Agigea Lock. When he would enter &#8220;Hospital Room 4&#8243;\u2026 I knew him for a short time because he passed into eternal life right after. When he would enter &#8220;Hospital Room 4,&#8221; he would stop and look towards the proskomidi, towards the icon on the right side of the chapel, towards the Mother of God. I don&#8217;t remember for sure, but he said that Cornel Ni\u021b\u0103 was put up on the wall and martyred there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, the first martyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: The first martyr from Pite\u0219ti, yes. Ceau\u0219escu wanted to award engineer Constantin Iulian, but when he found out he was a political prisoner, he pushed him aside and they didn&#8217;t even accept him for a doctorate. He earned his doctorate after &#8217;90. He is a doctor in construction. He was, or rather, he is&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: He is&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Because he passed to the Lord a little while after, yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Cornel Ni\u021b\u0103 \u2013 for those who don&#8217;t know \u2013 the torturers nailed him to the wall in the sign of the cross and tortured him until he died. They crucified him in mockery&#8230; Yes&#8230; blaspheming our Lord Jesus Christ and that\u2019s how he died. He was very young, if I\u2019m not mistaken [He was martyred at 23 years old].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, but they were all young, none of them were old&#8230; They were students&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, yes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: They were all students. As was \u021aurcanu, he was also a student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: But he was drawn to a bright future, as had been proposed to him. Wasn&#8217;t he? Lord, Lord, what it means not to have the experience of the truth of Jesus Christ! Because if you don\u2019t have the experience of the truth, you can be manipulated&#8230; God forbid! They can do anything with you, absolutely anything. What I wanted to ask you \u2013 regarding the ladies, because until now we have only talked about martyrs, male martyrs. What about female martyrs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A: Yes, I knew Mrs. [Elena] Arn\u0103u\u021boiu very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes. In memoriam, Maria Axinte erected a cross in their village, where they grew up, in Nuc\u0219oara, and several times I have also been to her home. She lived 102 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Or over 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God! And with all the drama her brother went through&#8230; or who was it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: The mother, the brother\u2026 \u2014the brothers. She said she was in prison in Jilava and&#8230; could hear those who were going to interrogation or coming back from interrogation crying and screaming. And she was with her mother in the cell and they were ashamed because the brothers \u2013 Petre and their other brother, Ioan \u2013 had a notebook in which they wrote down from whom they received food, goods, so they could live in the mountains to survive, thinking that when all the horrors and persecution ended, they would thank the people\u2014they might forget [otherwise]. And the secret police got the notebook and then took them all for interrogation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: They shot the two brothers at Jilava, the mother and Mrs. Arn\u0103u\u021boiu came home, but you can imagine how it was\u2026 she was from C\u00e2mpulung Muscel. Extraordinary people. An extraordinary woman, with such a clear mind, like actually, all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, that impresses me, that they are all extraordinary, meaning they became saints in prison. Mrs. Galina R\u0103duleanu, for whom we have boundless love and respect, said in one of the clips&#8230; that she regretted coming out of prison, I mean, she became a saint in prison. May Mrs. Galina R\u0103duleanu forgive me for speaking like this about her! In prison, she advanced spiritually. Do you understand? And this is what I see in all those in prisons \u2013 they talk about this. And Mr. M\u0103rgineanu, who made the film about his father, Nicolae M\u0103rgineanu, who was also a political prisoner, a spiritual prisoner. From political prisoners, they transformed into spiritual prisoners. He even made the film with his wife and lady, Mrs. Maria Ploae, to whom we send all our love and respect, and the film was called &#8220;Binecuv\u00e2ntat\u0103 e\u0219ti \u00eenchisoare.&#8221; (&#8220;Bless You, Prison&#8221; 2002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I sit and wonder: of course we do not want today&#8217;s youth to go to prison, God forbid! God forbid, but don&#8217;t you think they should have a slightly more ascetic program, a little further from the condition life is lived today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: You should know that young people really come to our church, they really come to the chapel&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Those who are married come with their children too. Those from schools have already started coming with the &#8220;Different School&#8221; program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And they really come, and it is an encouraging thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Something is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Something is really happening. Things are moving. I think this thing with&#8230; is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: With filming&#8230; With prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Both filming and prayer\u2026 Yes, because the young people have understood that they need to kneel in prayer and come to Jesus Christ, and you can only come to Jesus Christ on your knees; you cannot come proud and arrogant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes. Like &#8220;[Look] at the things I&#8217;ve done!&#8221; As we were discussing earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: A father from here, from the Holy Mountain, was telling a story earlier that there were some visits here and the first one who entered broke his nose, the second one cut his eye, the third one\u2026 Because they came here proud. Here, to Jesus Christ and in the garden of the Mother of God, you lower your head because you have time to go outside [of it] and do something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, so Mrs. Galina R\u0103duleanu, I met her. Well, we are\u2026 if Mrs. Galina allows me to say so, I would say we are friends. I was in Moldova\u2026 Fr. Boris R\u0103duleanu, Mrs. Galina\u2019s father, was also imprisoned. Mrs. Galina R\u0103duleanu recounted that she was taken from her workplace. She was a doctor in a certain village or commune in the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Psychiatrist, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes. And they came and took her directly because she wrote something in a notebook, I don&#8217;t know what, or, well, they made up something there. In any case, her father was in prison, she knew nothing about her father, she knew nothing about the others at home, just like the others in prison, if we talk about those I mentioned. No one knew what happened to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, yes. They were alone with hell in front of them and heaven in their hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: That\u2019s right! Those were the times, those were the days, they lived with dignity. Mr. Nicolae Purc\u0103rea recounted that only the prayers of the Mother of God and the Lord Jesus Christ kept him\u2026 Speaking of Mr. Nicolae Purc\u0103rea who wrote \u201cUrl\u0103 haita&#8221; (The Pack Howls), he recounted that when they beat them on the heel, on the sole, and hit them with a hammer, he only felt the first blow, directly in his head&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And that was it, he didn\u2019t feel the others anymore. So when they hit him with a hammer on the heel, you can imagine what\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Mother of God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He said that they could no longer wear shoes after that, they could no longer walk in boots. The foot wouldn&#8217;t fit because it was swollen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: The whole foot was actually broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And despite all that, look&#8230; Just like the others, Mr. Nicolae lived over 90 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He wrote the book around the age of 87, if I\u2019m not mistaken, he had finished writing it by the time he turned 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, well, today we are not even able to write a book at 40 years old, I mean, what more can we say&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: I don\u2019t even know how to write two lines, that\u2019s another matter. These phones make it so that you don\u2019t even put the comma where it should be, you don\u2019t use punctuation marks anymore, it\u2019s something like&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, everyone said that the Savior and the Church and faith saved them, helped them get through this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Yes, because if you don&#8217;t have this inner heaven, you can&#8217;t withstand the hell outside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Mr. Andronescu, our poet, used to tell stories&#8230; Well, there are many stories. He tells how he used to talk through a cup, through the wall, in Morse code with Nichifor Crainic, with Manu&#8230; something like this, and he said, &#8220;I never thought I could find them here.&#8221; What is interesting about Mr. Demostene [Andronescu] is that he wanted to get sent to solitary confinement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Yes, to write poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: To write poetry, yes, to reach a higher state in order to write poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He got used to sleeping standing up. You couldn\u2019t sit down in solitary confinement because if you slept there, you would die. And in that cell, what could he do? He walked around. He probably had three square meters and he wrote poetry. And it was quiet, no one disturbed him, and then he wrote poetry. He wrote, wrote, wrote, and he recounted that after he got out of prison he wrote poems, some of the poems, on a sweater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: He wrote them in Morse code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And he went to his sister\u2019s house, and his sister found it somewhere there, you can imagine it was patched up, torn as it was when he came out of prison, poor him. And she threw it away. When he realized, he looked for it\u2026 The poetry! He couldn\u2019t find it anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, I threw it in the trash because it was torn!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh Lord, forgive me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: We were not worthy! We hope, however, to be worthy of this great heritage, of this great treasure that we have, and to be able to carry it forward as worthy successors! This is what I reckon\u2026 and each of us contributes our small offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the good Lord help us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us! Amen. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Thank you! I was about to tell you something, but remember this: I met Tudor Gheorghe\u2019s father, Mr. Ilie. Before I met him, I received a book from Suceava. I read it, I cried. Ilie Tudor came home from prison. He arrives at his home. In the garden, the dog recognized him and didn&#8217;t bark. He didn&#8217;t go into the house so as not to disturb anyone. He stayed in the hayloft. There, he said, &#8220;So, I saw a big shirt on the clothesline, a big man&#8217;s shirt. Maybe my wife got married, who knows&#8230; And I stayed until morning to see whose it was&#8230; It was my son&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God! Tudor Gheorghe, the great rhapsode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: And Mr. Ilie told me that when he was in solitary confinement, he fell asleep. He couldn&#8217;t not anymore, the floor was icy cold and he fell asleep. And he wasn&#8217;t cold at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G.A.: Around him it was dry and the jailer came to take him to the morgue because they hadn&#8217;t heard anything from him. He looked through the peephole, didn&#8217;t see him, and kicked him. He got up, jumped up, he was alive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. T.: Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G. A.: He was alive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. 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