Noua creştinătate şi martirii săi: sfinţii naţionali şi memoria identitară în succesiunea Marii Spaime (secolele X-XIII)
New Christianity and its martyrs: national saints and identity memory in the succession of the Great Terror (X-XIII centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The biographies of some people of the church and of those founding dynasties of the Eastern-Central-European states, honored by the communities of faithful as martyrs and invested by the ecclesiastical authorities with the attributes of holiness, are the components of an image that is rather difficult to reconstruct, but is much more close to the realities of the time in relation to the succession of facts, regarding the moment of the double edification, political and spiritual, which marked the entry of the Slavic and Hungarian nations into the official history. St. Adalbert, Saints Boris and Gleb, St. Emeric and St. Stanislaus of Krakow demonstrate by their acts the complex character of the process of spreading the Christian faith from centers with apostolic legitimacy to the populations outside of the old Orbis Romanus.

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