IDENTITATEA CONFESIONALĂ ORTODOXĂ PRINTRE FAMILIILE NOBILIARE ROMÂNEȘTI. REPERE ARĂDENE
ORTHODOX CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY AMONG ROMANIAN NOBLE FAMILIES. REFERENCE POINTS IN ARAD

Author(s): Felicia Aneta Oarcea
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Social history, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: Arad; Romanian noble families; Orthodox Church; confessional identity; spiritual heritage;
Summary/Abstract: This demeanour lists as an attempt to return to the present the contribution that the small Romanian nobility had in keeping the orthodox confessional identity. Not randomly picked, those few families on which we stopped – Moga „of Hălmagiu”, Cornea Barb „of Ileni”, Ioja „of Ravna”, Horga Popovici „of BoroșJenei”, Moțica „of Leștioara”, Raț „of Teiuș”, Petranu „of Ileanda” – weaved around them models of ethno-confessional solidarity. Whether they had come from the Transilvanian parts or had lived all along on the heart of Aradean settlements, these coalesced around them their communities, represented their political, economical and socio-cultural interes and watched over their spiritual wellbeing, founding or caring for the values of the ecclesiastical patrimony. Surpassing the hardships of temporary political regimes, which marked their statute of small armalist nobility, even to its loss, in memory of their descendents or the collective one, nobility was perpetuated. Thanks to the intergenerational links, they transmitted the entire patrimony to their descendents, and to us thy bestowed a priceless inheritance.

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