The “Great War” Mirrored in the Church Chronicles of Hunedoara
The “Great War” Mirrored in the Church Chronicles of Hunedoara
Author(s): Florin DobreiSubject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Asociaţiunea Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român - ASTRA
Keywords: the First World War; the Great Union of 1st December 1918; Dobra (Hunedoara county); Church chronicle; orthodox priest Iosif Morariu;
Summary/Abstract: The year 1914 marked, at the level of the whole of Europe, the onset of a long andbloody war; or the “Great War”, as it is known in history. As a component part of Hungary at that time,Transylvania was dragged in an armed clash that did not belong to it. Thousands of inhabitants of thepresent county of Hunedoara fought with a gun in their hands on a huge front, stretching from Galicia tonorthern Italy. Both the Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Church of Hunedoara, through its ministers (priestsand teachers from the Romanian confessional schools), had its contribution to the passions of those years, aswell as to the achievement of the most important national goal: the Great Union of Alba Iulia on 1stDecember 1918. At the end of a Romanian-Cyrillic Gospel printed in Sibiu, in 1859, priest and archpriestIosif Morariu (1898-1944) of Dobra (Hunedoara county) noted, between 1914 and 1918, on pages ofgenuine chronicle, the series of the most important events – at local and international level – of the FirstWorld War.
Journal: Astra Salvensis - revista de istorie si cultura
- Issue Year: VII/2019
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 339-354
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
