Panegiricul în scrierile mitropolitului Nicolae Colan
Encomium in the Writings of Metropolitan Nicolae Colan

Summary/Abstract: The encomia of Metropolitan Nicolae Colan praise and preach the great Christian truths, along with their holidays and martyrs, concurring to the limitless praise of the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. On a different level, consistent to the idea that the writing must follow reality, to praise and adequately evoke historical personalities, Nicolae Colan also presented in his writings pieces of history, as seen through his own eyes, which, today, help us see more comprehensively various events and phenomena. To the same image, it also contributes the diversity of the personalities evoked and praised, from Church fi gures like Andrei Şaguna, Roman Ciorogariu or Nicolae Bălan, to laic fi gures from various fi elds of activity: Octavian Goga, general Averescu, king Carol the 2nd, Ion Luca Caragiale, Sextil Puşcariu, as well as peasant Petrache Lupu, and so many other important fi gures, which shared with Nicolae Colan their creed, their values, their faith, and devotion to the Church, language and nation, everything surrounded by a specifi c Transylvanian spirit, a spirit he believed in and cultivated rigorously.

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