From the Life and Activity of a Tireless Scholar Monk, Vartolomei Mӑzӑreanu
From the Life and Activity of a Tireless Scholar Monk, Vartolomei Mӑzӑreanu

Summary/Abstract: One of the cultivated personalities from the XVIIIth century Moldavia was the Archimandrite of Putna, Vartolomei Mӑzӑreanu. Ever since his childhood, he entered in the Monastery of Putna and received education at the school which was operating next to the monastic settlement. As he was leading a clean life, inclined to prayer and study, the Metropolitan of that time, Iacov Putneanul, recommended Mӑzӑreanu, between 1757 and 1763, to take care of the Monastery of Putna as its abbot. Metropolitan Iacov Putneanul established a superior spiritual school at Putna meant to meet the spiritual needs of the time, and the organization of this school was in Vartolomei Mӑzӑreanu’s responsibility, who, by some sources, followed the model of the Theological Academy from Kiev. During this period of time, Archimandrite V. Mӑzӑreanu took care of the school of that place, both of its construction and the good course of its activity. It is notorious that he also consolidated the library of the theological school from the monastery, which consisted mainly of valuable manuscripts of the old copyists. In this way, there were preserved, until today, holy books, beautifully adorned, tied and maintained with appreciation.

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