Bogdan Lupescu

5/24/2022

Invisible Ascetics of the Bukovina Mountains

Part 2. Anchoresses

Bogdan Lupescu

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Invisible Ascetics of the Bukovina Mountains

Part 2. Anchoresses

Bogdan Lupescu

And there are even more nuns than monks. They are martyrs! Women live their lives richly adorned with virtues.

Invisible Ascetics of the Bukovina Mountains

Part 1. Climbing Giumalau Mountains

Bogdan Lupescu

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Invisible Ascetics of the Bukovina Mountains

Part 1. Climbing Giumalau Mountains

Bogdan Lupescu

The tradition of eremitic life in Romania has never been interrupted: it is still alive, and monks continue to struggle in gorges and precipices.

St. Basil of Poiana Marului, Spiritual Father of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky), Part 2

Poiana Marului Monastery

Bogdan Lupescu

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St. Basil of Poiana Marului, Spiritual Father of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky), Part 2

Poiana Marului Monastery

Bogdan Lupescu

In this community, which Church chronicles of those times called “wondrous,” the monks abode in perfect harmony and obedience, loving silence, humility, and material poverty, and faithfully following the rules of their Elder: no meat, no glasses of wine.

St. Basil of Poiana Marului, Spiritual Father of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky), Part 1

Dălhăuți Monastery

Bogdan Lupescu

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St. Basil of Poiana Marului, Spiritual Father of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky), Part 1

Dălhăuți Monastery

Bogdan Lupescu

St. Basil was called here by the icon. That’s what the old-timers around Dălhăuți believe today. After all, the icon brought him from Russia.

“I Was the First Person He’d Spoken to in Sixty Years!”

Hesychasts from the Valley of Cells, Part 2

Bogdan Lupescu

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“I Was the First Person He’d Spoken to in Sixty Years!”

Hesychasts from the Valley of Cells, Part 2

Bogdan Lupescu

I never saw him again, but our meeting turned my life around. I started persistently asking the Patriarchate for a transfer somewhere deep in the mountains, to a remote monastery: “Anywhere! Anywhere where it will be more difficult and more secluded,” I asked.

Hesychasts from the Valley of Cells

Journey to the Romanian Meteora—Cetățuia Negru Vodă Monastery, Part 1

Bogdan Lupescu

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Hesychasts from the Valley of Cells

Journey to the Romanian Meteora—Cetățuia Negru Vodă Monastery, Part 1

Bogdan Lupescu

The last three hermits arrived here in 1998 and have remained in the caves ever since. They haven’t seen anyone from the outside world except him, and even he sees them rarely, when he brings them rusks and Holy Communion.

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