Sfântul Vasile de la Poiana Mărului – animatorul isihasmului pe pământul românesc
Saint Vasile from Poiana Mărului – the animator of hesychasm on Romanian land

Summary/Abstract: Hesychasm is a movement of spiritual, theological and cultural revival of monastic origin, specific to the Orthodox teaching of the Christian East. Devotion to the name of Jesus was affirmed in Orthodoxy as the golden formula of the hesychastic prayer. The monasteries of the two Romanian Principalities experienced in the 18th century a period of philocalic renewal animated by the Jesus Prayer, especially through the great abbots and saints Vasile from Poiana Mărului and Paisius from Neamţ. In the mountains of Buzău, 11 hermitages were organized according to the hesychastic order established by St. Vasile from Poiana Mărului and populated with disciples trained by him. Abbot Vasile from Poiana Mărului is considered the most famous hesychast in Romania before Paisie. Abbot Vasile renewed the spiritual life of sketes and hermitages by harmoniously combining the ascetic life in Sinai and Athos with the spiritual experience of Slavic monasticism and with the established tradition on Romanian land. He managed to create an authentic current of spiritual renewal in the Romanian monasticism in the middle of the 18th century, able to transmit Hesychast spirituality to other Orthodox countries as well

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