Două fragmente inedite din viața Cuviosului Antipa de la Calapodești, un sfânt isihast român, puțin cunoscut
Two Unpublished Fragments from the Life of Venerable Antipa of Calapodești, a Little-Known Romanian Hesychast Saint

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to outline the life and work of a great Romanian saint, little known, an hesychast saint, lover of silence and wilderness, and also a monk formed in the Athonite spirit of long night vigils, fasting and asceticism, becoming honored in Romanian, Greek and Russian Orthodoxy − Saint Antipas of Calapodesti. The beginning of the presentation will include a brief introduction in which I will recall the biographical sources of the saint, the publication of the biography and the canonization of Father Antipas. The following chapters will deal with the wonderful life of Saint Antipas of Calapodesti: His wonderful childhood, full of hardships, but also of searching for God’s comforting grace, the sight of the uncreated light and the decision to follow the monastic life, the temptations overcome with the help of the Most Loving God and His Blessed Mother, his departure and his stay in the Holy Mountain, his complete obedience and humility, which led him to leave his beloved wilderness in the Holy Mountain and return to the city of Iasi to collect alms, his departure to Russia, also out of complete obedience, and his stay with blessing at the Valaam monastery in northern Russia. For the final part of the presentation I have selected from the archive of the Prodromu Monastery in the Holy Mountain and from the archive of the Valaam Monastery in Russia, moved during the communist regime to the New Valaam Monastery from Finland, two unpublished fragments, one from a personal letter of the saint, and the other from a manuscript of a disciple of Saint Antipas, which highlights the spiritual gifts that adorned this holy Romanian priest.

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