The Contribution of Metropolitan Nestor Vornicescu to the Canonization of the Romanian Saints
The Contribution of Metropolitan Nestor Vornicescu to the Canonization of the Romanian Saints

Summary/Abstract: Over time, Romanian Christianity has treasured many faces of chosen people, placed in the aura of holiness. The monastic tradition, the truly Christian life of the communities and the history with its turbulent periods have crystallized in the piety of the people many names of fathers, martyrs and confessors. Became autocephalous in 1885, the Romanian Church had several attempts to canonize its saints at the end of the 19th century. But the first official canonization of Romanian saints took place only in 1955, during the communist regime, through the care of the patriarch Justinian Marina (1948-1977). In conditions of religious freedom, the largest action of canonization of the Romanian saints took place in 1992, and the Metropolitan Nestor Vornicescu substantially contributed to this endeavor. Through the efforts of documentation of this great hierarch, 19 Romanian saints were placed in the synaxarion and the cult was generalized for other 38 proto-Romanian or foreign saints, honored by other Churches, but who had links of mission, preaching or martyrdom with the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space.

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