Lucrarea misionară a lui Mihail Moxa
The missionary work of Mihail Moxa

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the liturgical language used bythe erudite monk Mihail Moxa in his religious writings. The Romanian literature had considerably enriched in the seventeenth century because of this monk who, at the request of Bishop Theophilus, writes TheUniversal Chronicle (1620), the first writing of its kind in Romanian.Convinced that a nation can advance only through awareness of theplace they assume in history, the Bishop Theophilus of the Râmnic asked Moxa to write two religious works, translations of St. Gregory – The Signification of the Sacred Liturgy – and of St. Basil – Teachings for Priests, both kept in a manuscript that is currently at the British Library in London. In a time when the cult language was Slavonic, two papers written in Romanian were more than necessary. By translating these two works, the monk earnestly fulfilled the role of the Holy Word’s preacher.

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