Icoanele din școlile confesionale ale Protopopiatului ortodox Sebeș (1911-1917)
Icons from the Confessional Schools of the Orthodox Archpriestship Sebeș (1911-1917)

Summary/Abstract: An attempt of measuring the heritage owned by churches of Romanian communities in the latter half of the XIXth century and first half of the XXth century based on archives did not succeed to register only partial presence of the icons in Romanian confessional schools. As school belonged to the church and was under protection of a titular saint, at least one icon of this was to be found in the classroom. Information on icons is late, only from the second decade of the XXth century, when an application of school inspections requested specification of the titular saint of each school and listing of the icons from schools. In 1911, in the Sebeș Orthodox Archpriestship only six schools had icons in the classrooms; in 1917, after 14 inspections and solicitations of the archpriest only 9 schools comply of the 27 that operated within the archpriestship. In the midst of war, in 1917, the ministry of public instruction demanded statistic data on presence within Romanian confessional schools of historic paintings on Hungary's history and religious icons. Within holdings preserved in Alba County Department of the National Archives, we only identified the answer given by Sergiu Medean, the Orthodox archpriest of Sebeș and of the priests subordinated to him. It was prepared nationalization of schools and with this, abolishment of the Romanian confessional schools, only keepers of the national language.

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