Mitropolitul Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania, „om încuvântat”: o viaţă sub semnul mirabil al Buneivestiri
Metropolitan Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania, „man with the gift of the word”: a life under the wondrous sign of the Annunciation

Summary/Abstract: The life of the spiritual and literary man Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania is under the sign of the symbolic dialogue between Bart and Val, suggested in „Cerurile Oltului (The Heavens of the Olt)”, of the perpetual interior colloquium between faith and culture, of the fertile conjugation between the Bible of the Church and the library of culture. In retrospect, we discover that the Annunciation has become his emblem holiday. First of all, he was baptized in his native church on the feast of the Annunciation. Also, on the same day of the Annunciation, in 1936, he entered the brotherhoods of the cross, he was initiated in the greenish adolescence and thrown into the tumult of the history of a restless century, with painful consequences that will follow him for a lifetime through trials and imprisonment. 70 years after his adolescent initiation, after becoming almost a myth, a quasilegendary figure, on March 25, 2006, he was enthroned Metropolitan of Cluj by Patriarch Teoctist, the Annunciation thus becoming the patronal feast of the new metropolia. This wondrous sign of the Annunciation and this generic model of „So be it!” seem to have always guided from above the man Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania throughout his entire life.

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