Manifestările aniversare „Serbarea de la Putna – 150. Continuitatea unui ideal”
Anniversary events „The Celebration of Putna – 150. The continuity of an ideal”

Summary/Abstract: The year 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the first Celebration of Romanians Everywhere and the first Congress of Romanian Students Everywhere, held at Putna on 15-16 August 1871. The celebrations at the time, which took place at Putna Monastery in 1871, on the patronal feast – the Dormition of the Theotokos –, was a milestone in asserting Romanian identity and the national ideal in the aftermath of the 1859 Union. 150 years after that event, wishing to honour the ancestors and to continue on their path, at Putna Monastery an initiative committee made up of representatives of the students’ associations, youth, and Romanian cultural and spiritual circles, planned this anniversary in terms of continuing the pursuit of an ideal: The Celebration of Putna – 150. The continuity of an ideal. The events dedicated to this anniversary were attended by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, Mr Ioan Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy, hierarchs of the Holy Synod, representatives of the local authorities, as well as numerous clergy members and faithful of our Church. On 15 August 2021, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Holy Liturgy alongside a synaxis of bishops, priests and deacons. After the Holy Liturgy, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel consecrated the silver vigil lamp brought by the Romanian students from Romania and abroad, and Mr Ioan Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy, delivered a speech entitled „Let our motherland be our faith” on the Celebration of 1871. To conclude the events of 15 August, the Monastery’s abbot, archimandrite Melchisedec Velnic, thanked His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel for the joy he had brought by taking part in the celebrations of the patronal feast and the commemorative event. The reverend abbot also thanked the concelebrant clergy members, the guests, the officials and pilgrims, and especially the students who had taken part in the organizational work. On Monday, 16 August 2021, the feast of the Holy Brâncoveanu Martyrs, after the Holy Liturgy, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel alongside a synaxis of bishops, priests and deacons, officiated the memorial service (panikhida) for the founders of Putna Monastery and the authors of the 1871 Celebration of Putna. For the pahikhida, the monastery prepared a list of the participants and supporters of the 1871 Celebration, based on documents and the publications dating from 1870–1871. Then His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended the prize awarding for the contests „The Celebration of Putna – 150”, organized for this year’s festivities, according to the model of the oratory contest held in 1871, which in that year was won by the future great historian A.D. Xenopol. After 4 p.m., cu ora 16, in the Monastery’s Cultural Centre „Metropolitan Iacob Putneanul” was held the Anniversary Congress of Students, which opened with the welcoming address of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, entitled „Anniversary and commemoration to foster Romanian communion”. It was followed by the address of Mr Ioan Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy. The Congress continued with the questions addressed by students to His Beatitude and to the Academy’s President, followed by speeches delivered on behalf of students’ and youth organizations in Romania and abroad. Finally, it concluded with the reading out of the Declaration of the Anniversary Congress of Students, drafted as a result of the consultations prior to the Celebration.On Tuesday, 17 August 2021, in the sound of bell tolling, abbot Melchisedec Velnic and the congregation of Putna Monastery accompanied His Beatitude and the hierarchs who were leaving Putna, and thanked for the blessing, prayers and advice offered to the participants in the Celebration. These were days filled of grace and hope, continuing in the history of the Monastery the values held dear by the Holy Prince Steven the Great, and by Mihai Eminescu and his generation in 1871: belief in God and love for the motherland.

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