The Paulicians (Pavlichian Bulgarians) in Romania
The Paulicians (Pavlichian Bulgarians) in Romania

Summary/Abstract: "Although there is little adequate data for a study of the migration of the Paulicians and Bulgarians, the sources coming from the documents discovered in various monasteries in Eastern Europe or from the sources provided by the partial publication of the registers of the Inquisition have provided researchers with a better understanding of the hidden aspects and the rectification of a number of widespread and deep-rooted errors regarding the history of the Paulicians. The profile of the Paulicians is a theme that requires understanding that something that we believe we can find in the work of the missionaries of Thrace and then Bulgaria, who propagated in most of the West, the ideas of Paulicianism. For centuries missionaries have traversed a vast territory with a devotion that ignores the dangers of long journeys beyond the Carpathians and the forests that cover Germany in Poland and on the shores of the Baltic Sea, exerting their influence on Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, the neighboring countries of the Adriatic over a large part of Italy, reaching the banks of the Rhine and the Rhône, in Flanders, ancient Gaul, all, territories populated with countless disciples. Although they did not always leave a name for history, missionaries, despite many failures, had a great influence on some of the congregations they formed. Through their sacrifice they have united communities over time that have lasted over centuries. These congregations formed a common body with multiple faces but also common points, united by a strong faith based on a specific dogmatics. Concerned in particular with the origin and nature of good and evil, they created a spirituality with a Gnostic character and tendencies towards moral and social emancipation, succeeding in keeping united, over the centuries, congregations and communities instinctively attached to the features of Christian ideology, communities that saw in their doctrine the return to the simplicity of the apostolic teachings. "

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