Părintele Arsenie Boca (o biografie documentară) II
Father Arsenie Boca (a documentary biography) II

Summary/Abstract: In the present approach, I tried to reconstruct Father Arsenie Boca’s biography with the help of historical and spiritual sources, most of them unpublished. Due to the numerous works written about Father Arsenie, many of them parasitic, we considered it more useful to ignore them and build our historiographic discourse by identifying and analyzing every historical source that we had at hand. That is why the biography I wrote is a documentary one, loaded with texts from historical sources, precisely to dispel the main controversies hovering over Father Arsenie, which are due either to a lack of documentation or to ignorant opinions related to the historical context and which later, “rolled over time”, led to totally unfair and inauthentic assessments of the great cleric. We believe that we have managed to outline an objective and documented preliminary biography of Father Arsenie Boca. The biographical study is divided as follows: Education and spiritual formation, Entering monasticism, Aproached as a doctor of the soul, First arrest, Second arrest, Moving and establishing a community at the Prislop monastery, Missionary activities and spiritual relations, Third arrest, Gathering talents, The fourth arrest, Final days in the monastery and going back into the world, Living in the world and being watched by the Security, Spiritual and artistic work, Father Arsenie’s attitude towards communism, Father Arsenie’s spiritual legacy.

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