Muntele Athos şi Marea Unire
Mount Athos and the Great Union

Summary/Abstract: This text brings to the attention of people interested – not many – several data on the evolution of the Romanian community on Mount Athos after the Balkan wars, during the First World War and in the interwar period. After the unification of Bessarabia with the motherland, the Romanian monastic community grew because it integrated numerous Bessarabian friars who had lived on the Holy Mountain. Besides the turmoil within the Romanian monastic community caused by the Great War, I will outline several information that will complete the dossier on Stephen the Great’s flag, brought in the country and preserved until 1917 in the monastery of Zographou. I will also analyse the discussions about the Great Union, initiated by the Romanian state in order to have their own monastery on Mount Athos or in order to promote of the Romanian hermitages – Prodromu or Lacu – to the rank of monastery.

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