Biserica Ortodoxă Română din Transilvania - sprijinitoare a Războiului de Independenţă
The Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania - Supporter of the War of Independence

Summary/Abstract: The activity of the Romanian clergy during the War of Independence manifested through divine services and prayers for victory, through pastorals of the hierarchs and speeches delivered by priests, through articles and appeals, through exhortations and relief for the benefit of the soldiers on the front and their families, through medical supplies for the wounded, through the services accomplished as military confessors on the battlefield, through the acts of bravery committed by some priests on the front, through joining the sanitary organization of monks and nuns. The national unity, the unity of language, the unity of faith and ideal and the unity of effort turned the echoes of the war of independence in the souls of the Romanians in Transylvania into practical attitudes, manifested by: joining, as volunteers, the Romanian army of young people in the area of Sibiu and Făgăraş; by collecting supplies for the army on the front and for the wounded in hospitals, initiated by the Romanian women in Sibiu and the Romanian Committee of Brasov and generalized throughout Transylvania through calls and subscription lists.

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