Les pretres roumains dans la Premiere Guerre Mondiale. Le cas de l’archiprȇtre de Reghin
The Romanian Priests and the First World War. The Case of the Archpriest of Reghin

Summary/Abstract: A tumultuous event of the 20th century, the First World War profoundly changed Europe and the world, marking the beginning of a new era in the history of humanity. Beyond victory, earnings and gains or defeats, The Great War, as it was called by the contemporaries, represented an enormous drama, a breakdown in the life of everybody, a period of insecurity and suffering, every family having its widows, orphans or mutilated. The civilians became targets, the victims of a strategy which aimed at annihilating and undermining the morale, the production capacity, as well as the national symbols. The present study recreates a fragment of the dramas experienced by the Romanians in Transylvania during the First World War, more precisely, the events taking place around the city of Sopron - situated in the West of Hungary - the main victims being intellectual elites, particularly the priests.

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