Antim Ivireanul
Antim of Iviria

Summary/Abstract: This article highlights the life, the printing activity and the oratorical profile of the holy metropolitan Antim Ivireanul. St. Antim entered the sphere of artistic literature through sacred eloquence. He is a personality worthy of the times in which he lived, an era torn between ambitious projects and a keen sense of the imminence of the apocalypse, between splendor and instability, between opulence and deprivation, a lot of misery and violence. Del Chiaro, the secretary of the martyr voivode Constantin Brâncoveanu, said that St. Antim was a printer but also a calligrapher, drawer, sculptor, translator, embroidery worker, he was gifted with rare talents and he perfected the art of printing. He knew Greek, Slavonic, Turkish, Arabic and he quickly learned Romanian too. He strongly supported Orthodoxy, also printing in Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Slavonic, in addition to the Romanian printings. Cultivated, intelligent and with multiple talents, he integrated so brilliantly in the Romanian culture to the extent that his destiny was identified with its destiny, increasing the tragic number of scholars “killed on the side of the road”.

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