Notes mémoriales des prêtres militaires du diocèse d'Arad dans les années de la Première Guerre Mondiale
Notes of the military priests from the Orthodox Episcopate of Arad regarding the realities on the fronts of the First World War

Summary/Abstract: The outbreak of the First World War in the summer of 1914 produced profound changes in Romanian society in the Orthodox diocese of Arad. Part of the Romanian Orthodox clergy of this diocese had to go to the front to ensure the morale of the Romanian soldiers who had enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army and had been forced to fight for a cause that was foreign to them. Some of these changes are visible in the notes of the military priests of the Romanian Orthodox diocese of Arad who arrived on the great fronts during the war, where they witnessed dramas that had a strong impact on them. The military priests who arrived at the fronts and in the major military hospitals played an important role, ensuring the morale of the soldiers, but also accompanying many dying people who asked them to write a last letter to their families. Today, more than a century after the end of the First World War, these correspondences help us better understand the drama of society at that time. It is a drama that affects the whole of society and takes place both on the front and behind the front, and which brings radical changes during the years 1918-1919.

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