Închisorile ieromonahului Mina Dobzeu
The prisons of the hieromonk Mina Dobzeu
Author(s): Adrian Nicolae PetcuSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: communist repression; orthodox monasticism; state-church relations during communism;
Summary/Abstract: Mina Dobzeu is known in the Romanian post-communist imagery as the priest who baptized Jewish writer and political prisoner Nicolae Steinhardt in the Christian Orthodox faith inside the Jilava prison. However, Mina Dobzeu was, most of all, one of those Romanian Orthodox spiritual fathers who fought against Communist atheism not necessarily through sermons, but mostly through samizdat. Through manifests (as he did in 1948), or letters sent to the leadership of the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1959, or to Nicolae Ceaușescu in the 1980s, father Mina Dobzeu demanded that atheism be no longer indoctrinated to young people, and the manifestation of religious freedom be ensured. In order to discover the entire activity of father Mina, both as religious servant and preacher and as a fighter for the freedom of faith, we initiated an extensive research in the archives of both the former political police and the church, managing to re-trace the journey of this authentic confessor of Orthodoxy under the Romanian communist persecution.
Journal: Altarul Reîntregirii
- Issue Year: XXV/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 79-112
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Romanian