Hunedoara Orthodox Monastic Establishments: History and the Present-Day Situation
Hunedoara Orthodox Monastic Establishments: History and the Present-Day Situation

Summary/Abstract: For many centuries, monasticism has been a favorite spiritual way to attain spiritual perfection through fasting, prayer, and contemplation. In the wilderness, in dark caves or deep in the heart of forests, all those who have chosen to devote their lives to God have found the peace and quiet necessary for a clear conscience and an uncorrupted heart. The Hunedoara space has been connected to these spiritual realities since ancient times, as evidenced by the multitude of eremitic or cenobitic monastic establishments that still come to light from chancellery documents, various notes on old religious books, toponyms, hydronyms, or local traditions. Without claiming to be original or exhaustive, this paper aims at nothing more than a brief presentation of all those past and present monasteries, sketes, and hermitages that have enriched the map of Romanian Transylvanian spirituality in general and that of Hunedoara County in particular.

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