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Books by Silviu Sana
This volume is an abridged, adapted and completed edition of volumes 1 and 2 of the “Seminarul Ti... more This volume is an abridged, adapted and completed edition of volumes 1 and 2 of the “Seminarul Tinerimii Române Unite din Oradea. [United Romanian Youth Seminary of Oradea]”, Cluj, Mega, 2022, signed by the undersigned, Tiberiu Alexandru Ciorba and Traian Ostahie.
The prezent book is a brief history in Romanian, Italian and English of the Greek-Catholic Seminary from Oradea/Nagyvárad.
My first book published in English, in 2020 at L'Harmattan Publishing House. It comprises 5 chap... more My first book published in English, in 2020 at L'Harmattan Publishing House. It comprises 5 chapters: The story of a martyr: Archbishop Valeriu Traian Frentiu; Fr. Alexandru Ratiu – An American priest under the surveillance of the Securitate (1945-1948); Bishop under surveillance. Iuliu Hirtea in the record of the Securitate (1947-1979); Greek-Catholics under the Orthodox Church. The “unification” from 1948 in dr. Augustin Paul’s report from 1957; The library of the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Oradea (1948-1950).
ISBN 978-2-343-19615-5
Várad nr. 5, 2024
The present article is a Hungarian traduction of my old article published in Annales Universitati... more The present article is a Hungarian traduction of my old article published in Annales Universitatis Apullensis. Historica, 15/I, 2011, 351–370.
Silviu Sana, 2014
The present paper – entitled “The Resistant. The Bishop Iuliu Hirtea in the documents of the Secu... more The present paper – entitled “The Resistant. The Bishop Iuliu Hirtea in the documents of the Security (1947-1979)” – enrolls in the series of documentary restitution of the recent history, particularly focusing on the “destiny” of the Greek-Catholic Dioecese of Oradea (Romania), taken on the 28th of July 1949 by the priest and teacher Iuliu Hirtea. This is the date when the teacher from Oradea started his pastoral mission that he was assigned by the representative of the Holy See in Romania, a mission that had the purpose of preserving the thesaurus of faith belonging to the Greek-Catholic church and of defending the faith communion with the Holy Father Pope from Rome.
Both the oppression measures developed by the communist regime from Bucharest, and the attacks coming from the representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church developed amidst the Greek-Catholic Church a remonstrant attitude materialized in three stages. In the first one, this manifested through the messages of encouragement addressed to their own believers (circular letters, pastoral visits and advices for the clergy and the believers) and through the documents addressed to the Govern and to the Orthodox brethren. The second stage, is the one that coincides with the moment when the persecution began (the measurements of “religious” unification, the arrest of bishops, the interdiction Decree 358/1 from December 1948) and when the Greek-Catholic Church was for that moment “disarmed”, the opposition being taken and supported by the Holy See, through the regent nuncio from Bucharest who, secretly, had consecrated new bishops for the Greek-Catholic episcopacies. In the third stage, the opposition comes back into the hand of the new hierarchy having one definite purpose: continuity. The newly consecrated bishops were charged, in the virtue of the Episcopal ministration, with the teaching, blessing and leading of the people of God. These pastoral duties were accomplished through practical activities: by supporting the clergy and the believers who had not passed to Orthodoxy, by accepting the priests who had got back to the Catholic belief, by administering the Holy Communion and consecrating priests, by keeping the bond with the Holy See and a dialogue with the communist authorities for exonerating the Church.
This particular opposition makes the subject of the present book, but not from the perspective of the oppressed one, but from an analyzed perspective of the oppressor, that is the Security – the repression instrument of the communist regime. To stand as a proof, the terms “resistance”, ”clandestinity” used in the documents of the Security show precisely the legitimate opposition of the Greek-Catholic Church against all the enclosing measures that it had to put up with during the period 1946-1989.
Realizing a sequence of events from the oppressor`s perspective who considered the Greek-Catholic Church an “enemy” and an “agent of imperialism” can never bear the marks of an objective history – due to the fact that the he himself, the “manufacturer” of these documents was instructed to make even the most innocent person an “enemy of the people” – only if the oppressor`s perspective is analyzed with scientific exactness by corroborating both the information from the primary sources (the CNSAS archives – The National Council for Studying the Security`s Archives, The National Archives, interviews and testimonials) and from the secondary sources (the memorialist literature, the specialized literature, the press of that time), confirming or rescinding the accuracy of the dates there where at least three sources state the same thing, or mentioning the typical formulas: “so it says”, “according to the information supplied by…”, “concluding with those written in the informative note…”, “according to the information…”, “according to the declarations…”, “the informant/the informative note mention…” etc.
Therefore, understood and assumed through this filter of research, the documents attached to this writing reflect, on one hand, the “resistance/clandestinity” activity of the Bishop Iuliu Hirtea and of the priests that belong to the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea, an activity that arises from: the informative notes, the inquiries and the conviction sentences, the tailing reports, the correspondence about the situation of the “resistance” between the central body of the Security and the local one, “the measures plans” specially created for counter-balancing the Greek-Catholic resistance etc. On the other hand, these documents reflect the lack of training of the personnel from Security, the proletcultism specific to that period and, mainly, the proof of a diabolic system built on lies: false accusations, defamations, denigrations, injustices, information and snitching.
The book is divided into three chapters: I. The Persecution (1945-1964) with the stages that the Greek-Catholic Church went through and implicitly the Bishop Iuliu Hirtea went the same: tracing the priests in the income statements of the “Security”, the deliberate prosecution and the first arrest of the teacher from Oradea, “The Lot Hirtea” in the defendants bench (with the inquiries, the indictment, the trial and the conviction) and Iuliu Hirtea`s pastoral mission from detention. Chapter II entitled “Clandestinity”(1947-1978) – leans mostly on the informative notes and there are three highlighted themes: “Release and surveillance” in which is presented the Bishop`s attitude at his release and the Security`s position towards the ex-convicts, kept “hostages” through the diabolic system, identified here with information/snitching. The second theme, fairly challenging for the regime, deals with the discovery of information about Iuliu Hirtea`s relation with the Holy See. The third theme–“Pleading for the liberty of the Greek-Catholic Church” – transmits in almost all the informative notes from the years 1964 – 1978, Hirtea`s faith and hope that eventually the Greek-Catholic Church will be set free. It was actually a procedure, discovered by the Security, through which the Bishop reconsiders the relation of the Greek-Catholic Church with the communist government, bringing arguments of historical and theological nature for the release from “clandestinity”. The third chapter – “Oppressor and oppressed persons: The Security and the Greek-Catholic Church” – defines the oppressor under two aspects: the subchapter “Under the aegis of the “liberator” Red Army and against the Romanians” enlarges the subject of oppression at a local level started by the Hungarian and Jew communists who having the Soviet support incriminated the Romanian Greek-Catholic priests that they were supporting the Romanians` adherence to the old historical parties with the purpose of bringing back in the area the Romanian administration. The second subchapter “Official grounds and structures of the Security” displays the Security as a main instrument of repression belonging to the communist regime: the enforceability of the communist and the clearance of the state institutions, the ideological grounds of the Security`s functioning implemented in the legislation, the sectors that dealt with the Greek-Catholic Church and with the functioning of the informants` network.
Definitely, both the 96 documents appended to this book, and the other documents from the CNSAS archives can develop in the future some other themes that were not discussed here.
Conferintele Unirii, Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2018
In this article, we propose to present Vasile Goldiş's contribution to the construction of the Gr... more In this article, we propose to present Vasile Goldiş's contribution to the construction of the Great Union in 1918. In the first part, we made a brief review of childhood and youth. In the second part, we find details about how he was involved in political activity and, implicitly, in the realization of the Union through his activity within the Romanian National Party, the participation in the writing of the Oradea Declaration of October 12, 1918, as well as at the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia, member of the Conduct and as minister of public instruction.
Carte, cenzură şi biblioteci în Nord-Vestul României, 2013
Cărţile sunt cărăuşii civilizaţiei.
Referenţi ştiinţifici: Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Dumitru SUCIU Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Remus CÂMP... more Referenţi ştiinţifici: Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Dumitru SUCIU Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Remus CÂMPEANU Prof. univ. dr. Nicolae BOCŞAN Traducere în limba engleză: Elena Căpuşan Coperta: Daniel Ţig
Papers by Silviu Sana
Varad , 2024
My second paper in Hungarian about the „schematismus” in the Bihor County Library from Oradea.
Apulum, 2024
The Romanian specialized literature dedicated to incunabula on the territory of Romania is not so... more The Romanian specialized literature dedicated to incunabula on the territory of Romania is not so old, although this year marks 59 years since the appearance of the first articles addressing our subject. In a first phase, the research focused on identifying them in various collections of old books from public collections (libraries and museums), entered the state patrimony by confiscation, both from the collections of abusively suppressed ecclesiastical institutions (Roman-Catholic Church, Greek-Catholic Church) and from various private collections.
For Bihor County, research on incunabula accumulated minimal efforts, especially during 1965-1990, when the discovery and promotion of specimens owned by the "Gheorghe Sincai" Bihor County Library by the former director of this institution, Professor Ioan Lenghel, took place. Only after 1990, more precisely in 2005, András Emődi, a recognized specialist in old books, managed to bring to light and capitalize the incunabula collection of the Library of the Roman-Catholic Diocese of Oradea. Thus, for the copies held by the "Gheorghe Sincai" Bihor County Library, a new approach to incunabula research becomes necessary for them to be classified in the "Treasure" category of the National Cultural Heritage of Romania. Their analysis not only completes new data, but also corrects some errors/gaps mentioned in the bibliography works that addressed the Oradea copies. The present study wants to bring additions to the history of these incunables from Oradea, thus contributing to completeness both from a bibliophile and historical point of view of the three patrimonial values. The three incunables are Defensorium curatorum contra eos qui privilegiatos se dicunt. Add: Pius II: Epistola ad Ludovicum XI Francorum regem ad quassationem Pragmaticae Sanctionis, Paris, [1489-1492], Robertus Caracciolus, [Opera Varia], Venice, [Non post 1485], [Fasciculus Temporum Omnes Antiquorum Cronicas Complectens], Venice, [1479].
For the volume Defensorium Curatorum, Paris [1489-1492] the information that completes the specialized bibliography is: it is the 7th edition out of the 8 known, only 9 copies of this edition being known in the world. The copy has historical value because it serves to know the political and theological context of the XIV-XV centuries, directly the dispute between parish priests and medicants orders, as well as the political-diplomatic relations between the Holy See of Rome and the Court of the King of France. The copy is a direct testimony to the work of one of the most famous Roman Catholic bishops, Richardus Fitzralph (1295-1360) and then to the work of Pope Pius II (1405-1464). The copy is distinguished by a very good execution, printed in Latin, on a column, in black ink, on paper with watermark, having a coat of arms of the royal court of France.
For the work Fasciculus Temporum, Venice 1479 the new information is as follows: In 1975 Professor Ioan Lenghel mentioned that the sheets are without number ("non-paginated"), this information being false. In 2007 false information was also given, the catalog written by Schatz and Stoica mentioned that the copy has the following pagination: f. 1-25, 64-68, 70-71. The copy is incomplete, with a total of 39 pages (f. 26-63). Other new information relates to notes. The book has 157 handwritten notes, of which 29 are decipherable and whole. The copy has historical value because it serves to know the conceptions of the fifteenth century, regarding the historical, theological, political and social knowledge of universal history, from the "creation of the world" until 1471. The particularity of this work is given by the parallel chronology of universal history and ecclesiastical history, of Roman Catholic Church. The copy is a direct testimony to the work of the Carthusian monk, Werner Rolevink (1425-1502) from Köln, a German historian and theologian, whose fundamental work is the present work.
For Robertus Caracciolus Opera Varia, Venice [non post 1485] the new information is as follows: this is the third edition of the 6 known to be incunabula. The work contains 79 sermons with themes from the liturgical calendar, concerning the morals and dogmatic teaching of the Church, numbered by manuscript note „Sermo 1, 2, 3, ...”. The specimen is in relatively good conservation condition, some sheets (from the beginning) show traces of stains. Sheets 8-9, 27-32, 156-164, 197-204 show traces of biological degradation, that is, traces of caries. The copy has historical value because it serves to know the printing activity in Venice, being at the same time a historical testimony of the homiletic literature of the fifteenth century in the Roman Catholic Church. The copy is a direct testimony to the printing activity of Gabriel of Grassis of Venice and especially to the work of Bishop Robertus Caracciolus, one of the most famous preachers of the fifteenth century.
Keywords:
Incunables, Oradea, Bihor County Library, additions, Defensorium Curatorum, Robertus Caracciolus, Fasciculus Temporum.
STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA 1-2, 2018
The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church and the Bishop Iuliu Hirțea under the Communist Regime. The p... more The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church and the Bishop Iuliu
Hirțea under the Communist Regime. The present paper enrolls in the series
of documentary restitution of the recent history, particularly focusing on the
“destiny” of the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea, taken on the 28th of
July 1949 by the priest and teacher Iuliu Hirțea.
Amongst Romania’s most recent personalities, the name of the bishop Iuliu
Hirțea has its well-deserved place due to his exemplary life that he has chosen to put
into the service of the Greek-Catholic Church. Together with the bishops Ioan
Ploscaru (1911-1998), Ioan Chertes (1911-1992), Tit Liviu Chinezu (1904-1955),
Ioan Dragomir (1905-1985) and Alexandru Todea (1912-2002), Iuliu Hirțea
belongs to the second generation of martyr bishops called to serve the GreekCatholic Church from Romania in the time of the communist regime.
Mesagerul Sfantului Anton nr. 127/noiembrie-decembrie 2014, 2014
Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Theologia Catholica, 2020
Located in the space adjacent to the Pannonian Plain-close to a compact,territory where most of t... more Located in the space adjacent to the Pannonian Plain-close to a compact,territory where most of the Hungarian population is Roman-Catholic and Calvinist-the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea is today the religious institution under whose jurisdiction the Romanians from Bihor, Sátmar and Sálaj Counties are. Reduced as number after the years of the communist persecution (1948-1989), the parochial communities of this eparchy are today small islands in a sea of Orthodox communities with which they share the liturgical and spiritual heritage of Byzantine tradition, the external differences, those of the religious ceremonies, being a few words and phrases that are spoken during the liturgy (reference to the Pope, "Lord have pity[...]" instead of "Lord have mercy [...]", "Holy Spirit" instead of "Holy Ghost" etc.). Yet, which is the Greek-Catholics' identity, since they share the same Orthodox Byzantine tradition, but, at a theological level, share the same tenets with the Roman-Catholics? Was or was not the Byzantine tradition an important factor that contributed to the passing of the Greek-Catholics to Orthodoxy in the period 1948-1989? This paper wants to give an answer to these questions, carefully analyzing the aspects of Byzantine tradition from the history of the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea-Mare, in the period 1850-1900, on a territory where the Romanian Greek-Catholicism has held, until 1948, the highest percentage of believers. 1853 brings a profound change in the life of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Alba Iulia and Fágára §, located in Blaj, coming up to the rank of Mitropoly, thereby constituting a new church province, consisting of four Romanian eparchies (Alba Iulia and Fágára?, Oradea, Gherla and Lugoj) and that was subordinate directly to the Holy See. It was the moment of a new beginning, the settlement and perfection of the status of the new metropolitan province, according to the pontifical decrees and the sociopolitical situations of the time, thing made with the help of the three Provincial Synods from 1872, 1882 and 1900. These Synods have clearly defined the specific of the Byzantine tradition of the Romanian Greek-Catholics, being made also changes in the canonical law, especially regarding the synodical issue, the problem of the sacrament of marriage and of the Protopopes' ecclesiastic-legal status 1. These changes have not substantially affected the ritual * Librarian, PhD, County Library "Gheorghe Sincai" Bihor, Oradea (Romania).
Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Theologia Graeco Catholica Varadiensis, 2006
Apulum: Arheologie. Istorie. Etnografie, 2008
... Aspecte din activitatea clerului superior din Eparhia Romana Unita de Oradea (1850 - 1900). I... more ... Aspecte din activitatea clerului superior din Eparhia Romana Unita de Oradea (1850 - 1900). Identitatea, formarea si misiunea protopopilor. Autores: Silviu-Iulian Sana; Localización: Apulum: Arheologie. Istorie. Etnografie, ISSN 1013-428X, Vol. 45, Nº. 1, 2008 , págs. 429-440. ...
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Catholica, 2018
This volume is an abridged, adapted and completed edition of volumes 1 and 2 of the “Seminarul Ti... more This volume is an abridged, adapted and completed edition of volumes 1 and 2 of the “Seminarul Tinerimii Române Unite din Oradea. [United Romanian Youth Seminary of Oradea]”, Cluj, Mega, 2022, signed by the undersigned, Tiberiu Alexandru Ciorba and Traian Ostahie.
The prezent book is a brief history in Romanian, Italian and English of the Greek-Catholic Seminary from Oradea/Nagyvárad.
My first book published in English, in 2020 at L'Harmattan Publishing House. It comprises 5 chap... more My first book published in English, in 2020 at L'Harmattan Publishing House. It comprises 5 chapters: The story of a martyr: Archbishop Valeriu Traian Frentiu; Fr. Alexandru Ratiu – An American priest under the surveillance of the Securitate (1945-1948); Bishop under surveillance. Iuliu Hirtea in the record of the Securitate (1947-1979); Greek-Catholics under the Orthodox Church. The “unification” from 1948 in dr. Augustin Paul’s report from 1957; The library of the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Oradea (1948-1950).
ISBN 978-2-343-19615-5
Várad nr. 5, 2024
The present article is a Hungarian traduction of my old article published in Annales Universitati... more The present article is a Hungarian traduction of my old article published in Annales Universitatis Apullensis. Historica, 15/I, 2011, 351–370.
Silviu Sana, 2014
The present paper – entitled “The Resistant. The Bishop Iuliu Hirtea in the documents of the Secu... more The present paper – entitled “The Resistant. The Bishop Iuliu Hirtea in the documents of the Security (1947-1979)” – enrolls in the series of documentary restitution of the recent history, particularly focusing on the “destiny” of the Greek-Catholic Dioecese of Oradea (Romania), taken on the 28th of July 1949 by the priest and teacher Iuliu Hirtea. This is the date when the teacher from Oradea started his pastoral mission that he was assigned by the representative of the Holy See in Romania, a mission that had the purpose of preserving the thesaurus of faith belonging to the Greek-Catholic church and of defending the faith communion with the Holy Father Pope from Rome.
Both the oppression measures developed by the communist regime from Bucharest, and the attacks coming from the representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church developed amidst the Greek-Catholic Church a remonstrant attitude materialized in three stages. In the first one, this manifested through the messages of encouragement addressed to their own believers (circular letters, pastoral visits and advices for the clergy and the believers) and through the documents addressed to the Govern and to the Orthodox brethren. The second stage, is the one that coincides with the moment when the persecution began (the measurements of “religious” unification, the arrest of bishops, the interdiction Decree 358/1 from December 1948) and when the Greek-Catholic Church was for that moment “disarmed”, the opposition being taken and supported by the Holy See, through the regent nuncio from Bucharest who, secretly, had consecrated new bishops for the Greek-Catholic episcopacies. In the third stage, the opposition comes back into the hand of the new hierarchy having one definite purpose: continuity. The newly consecrated bishops were charged, in the virtue of the Episcopal ministration, with the teaching, blessing and leading of the people of God. These pastoral duties were accomplished through practical activities: by supporting the clergy and the believers who had not passed to Orthodoxy, by accepting the priests who had got back to the Catholic belief, by administering the Holy Communion and consecrating priests, by keeping the bond with the Holy See and a dialogue with the communist authorities for exonerating the Church.
This particular opposition makes the subject of the present book, but not from the perspective of the oppressed one, but from an analyzed perspective of the oppressor, that is the Security – the repression instrument of the communist regime. To stand as a proof, the terms “resistance”, ”clandestinity” used in the documents of the Security show precisely the legitimate opposition of the Greek-Catholic Church against all the enclosing measures that it had to put up with during the period 1946-1989.
Realizing a sequence of events from the oppressor`s perspective who considered the Greek-Catholic Church an “enemy” and an “agent of imperialism” can never bear the marks of an objective history – due to the fact that the he himself, the “manufacturer” of these documents was instructed to make even the most innocent person an “enemy of the people” – only if the oppressor`s perspective is analyzed with scientific exactness by corroborating both the information from the primary sources (the CNSAS archives – The National Council for Studying the Security`s Archives, The National Archives, interviews and testimonials) and from the secondary sources (the memorialist literature, the specialized literature, the press of that time), confirming or rescinding the accuracy of the dates there where at least three sources state the same thing, or mentioning the typical formulas: “so it says”, “according to the information supplied by…”, “concluding with those written in the informative note…”, “according to the information…”, “according to the declarations…”, “the informant/the informative note mention…” etc.
Therefore, understood and assumed through this filter of research, the documents attached to this writing reflect, on one hand, the “resistance/clandestinity” activity of the Bishop Iuliu Hirtea and of the priests that belong to the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea, an activity that arises from: the informative notes, the inquiries and the conviction sentences, the tailing reports, the correspondence about the situation of the “resistance” between the central body of the Security and the local one, “the measures plans” specially created for counter-balancing the Greek-Catholic resistance etc. On the other hand, these documents reflect the lack of training of the personnel from Security, the proletcultism specific to that period and, mainly, the proof of a diabolic system built on lies: false accusations, defamations, denigrations, injustices, information and snitching.
The book is divided into three chapters: I. The Persecution (1945-1964) with the stages that the Greek-Catholic Church went through and implicitly the Bishop Iuliu Hirtea went the same: tracing the priests in the income statements of the “Security”, the deliberate prosecution and the first arrest of the teacher from Oradea, “The Lot Hirtea” in the defendants bench (with the inquiries, the indictment, the trial and the conviction) and Iuliu Hirtea`s pastoral mission from detention. Chapter II entitled “Clandestinity”(1947-1978) – leans mostly on the informative notes and there are three highlighted themes: “Release and surveillance” in which is presented the Bishop`s attitude at his release and the Security`s position towards the ex-convicts, kept “hostages” through the diabolic system, identified here with information/snitching. The second theme, fairly challenging for the regime, deals with the discovery of information about Iuliu Hirtea`s relation with the Holy See. The third theme–“Pleading for the liberty of the Greek-Catholic Church” – transmits in almost all the informative notes from the years 1964 – 1978, Hirtea`s faith and hope that eventually the Greek-Catholic Church will be set free. It was actually a procedure, discovered by the Security, through which the Bishop reconsiders the relation of the Greek-Catholic Church with the communist government, bringing arguments of historical and theological nature for the release from “clandestinity”. The third chapter – “Oppressor and oppressed persons: The Security and the Greek-Catholic Church” – defines the oppressor under two aspects: the subchapter “Under the aegis of the “liberator” Red Army and against the Romanians” enlarges the subject of oppression at a local level started by the Hungarian and Jew communists who having the Soviet support incriminated the Romanian Greek-Catholic priests that they were supporting the Romanians` adherence to the old historical parties with the purpose of bringing back in the area the Romanian administration. The second subchapter “Official grounds and structures of the Security” displays the Security as a main instrument of repression belonging to the communist regime: the enforceability of the communist and the clearance of the state institutions, the ideological grounds of the Security`s functioning implemented in the legislation, the sectors that dealt with the Greek-Catholic Church and with the functioning of the informants` network.
Definitely, both the 96 documents appended to this book, and the other documents from the CNSAS archives can develop in the future some other themes that were not discussed here.
Conferintele Unirii, Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2018
In this article, we propose to present Vasile Goldiş's contribution to the construction of the Gr... more In this article, we propose to present Vasile Goldiş's contribution to the construction of the Great Union in 1918. In the first part, we made a brief review of childhood and youth. In the second part, we find details about how he was involved in political activity and, implicitly, in the realization of the Union through his activity within the Romanian National Party, the participation in the writing of the Oradea Declaration of October 12, 1918, as well as at the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia, member of the Conduct and as minister of public instruction.
Carte, cenzură şi biblioteci în Nord-Vestul României, 2013
Cărţile sunt cărăuşii civilizaţiei.
Referenţi ştiinţifici: Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Dumitru SUCIU Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Remus CÂMP... more Referenţi ştiinţifici: Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Dumitru SUCIU Cercet. ştiinţific I dr. Remus CÂMPEANU Prof. univ. dr. Nicolae BOCŞAN Traducere în limba engleză: Elena Căpuşan Coperta: Daniel Ţig
Varad , 2024
My second paper in Hungarian about the „schematismus” in the Bihor County Library from Oradea.
Apulum, 2024
The Romanian specialized literature dedicated to incunabula on the territory of Romania is not so... more The Romanian specialized literature dedicated to incunabula on the territory of Romania is not so old, although this year marks 59 years since the appearance of the first articles addressing our subject. In a first phase, the research focused on identifying them in various collections of old books from public collections (libraries and museums), entered the state patrimony by confiscation, both from the collections of abusively suppressed ecclesiastical institutions (Roman-Catholic Church, Greek-Catholic Church) and from various private collections.
For Bihor County, research on incunabula accumulated minimal efforts, especially during 1965-1990, when the discovery and promotion of specimens owned by the "Gheorghe Sincai" Bihor County Library by the former director of this institution, Professor Ioan Lenghel, took place. Only after 1990, more precisely in 2005, András Emődi, a recognized specialist in old books, managed to bring to light and capitalize the incunabula collection of the Library of the Roman-Catholic Diocese of Oradea. Thus, for the copies held by the "Gheorghe Sincai" Bihor County Library, a new approach to incunabula research becomes necessary for them to be classified in the "Treasure" category of the National Cultural Heritage of Romania. Their analysis not only completes new data, but also corrects some errors/gaps mentioned in the bibliography works that addressed the Oradea copies. The present study wants to bring additions to the history of these incunables from Oradea, thus contributing to completeness both from a bibliophile and historical point of view of the three patrimonial values. The three incunables are Defensorium curatorum contra eos qui privilegiatos se dicunt. Add: Pius II: Epistola ad Ludovicum XI Francorum regem ad quassationem Pragmaticae Sanctionis, Paris, [1489-1492], Robertus Caracciolus, [Opera Varia], Venice, [Non post 1485], [Fasciculus Temporum Omnes Antiquorum Cronicas Complectens], Venice, [1479].
For the volume Defensorium Curatorum, Paris [1489-1492] the information that completes the specialized bibliography is: it is the 7th edition out of the 8 known, only 9 copies of this edition being known in the world. The copy has historical value because it serves to know the political and theological context of the XIV-XV centuries, directly the dispute between parish priests and medicants orders, as well as the political-diplomatic relations between the Holy See of Rome and the Court of the King of France. The copy is a direct testimony to the work of one of the most famous Roman Catholic bishops, Richardus Fitzralph (1295-1360) and then to the work of Pope Pius II (1405-1464). The copy is distinguished by a very good execution, printed in Latin, on a column, in black ink, on paper with watermark, having a coat of arms of the royal court of France.
For the work Fasciculus Temporum, Venice 1479 the new information is as follows: In 1975 Professor Ioan Lenghel mentioned that the sheets are without number ("non-paginated"), this information being false. In 2007 false information was also given, the catalog written by Schatz and Stoica mentioned that the copy has the following pagination: f. 1-25, 64-68, 70-71. The copy is incomplete, with a total of 39 pages (f. 26-63). Other new information relates to notes. The book has 157 handwritten notes, of which 29 are decipherable and whole. The copy has historical value because it serves to know the conceptions of the fifteenth century, regarding the historical, theological, political and social knowledge of universal history, from the "creation of the world" until 1471. The particularity of this work is given by the parallel chronology of universal history and ecclesiastical history, of Roman Catholic Church. The copy is a direct testimony to the work of the Carthusian monk, Werner Rolevink (1425-1502) from Köln, a German historian and theologian, whose fundamental work is the present work.
For Robertus Caracciolus Opera Varia, Venice [non post 1485] the new information is as follows: this is the third edition of the 6 known to be incunabula. The work contains 79 sermons with themes from the liturgical calendar, concerning the morals and dogmatic teaching of the Church, numbered by manuscript note „Sermo 1, 2, 3, ...”. The specimen is in relatively good conservation condition, some sheets (from the beginning) show traces of stains. Sheets 8-9, 27-32, 156-164, 197-204 show traces of biological degradation, that is, traces of caries. The copy has historical value because it serves to know the printing activity in Venice, being at the same time a historical testimony of the homiletic literature of the fifteenth century in the Roman Catholic Church. The copy is a direct testimony to the printing activity of Gabriel of Grassis of Venice and especially to the work of Bishop Robertus Caracciolus, one of the most famous preachers of the fifteenth century.
Keywords:
Incunables, Oradea, Bihor County Library, additions, Defensorium Curatorum, Robertus Caracciolus, Fasciculus Temporum.
STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA 1-2, 2018
The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church and the Bishop Iuliu Hirțea under the Communist Regime. The p... more The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church and the Bishop Iuliu
Hirțea under the Communist Regime. The present paper enrolls in the series
of documentary restitution of the recent history, particularly focusing on the
“destiny” of the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea, taken on the 28th of
July 1949 by the priest and teacher Iuliu Hirțea.
Amongst Romania’s most recent personalities, the name of the bishop Iuliu
Hirțea has its well-deserved place due to his exemplary life that he has chosen to put
into the service of the Greek-Catholic Church. Together with the bishops Ioan
Ploscaru (1911-1998), Ioan Chertes (1911-1992), Tit Liviu Chinezu (1904-1955),
Ioan Dragomir (1905-1985) and Alexandru Todea (1912-2002), Iuliu Hirțea
belongs to the second generation of martyr bishops called to serve the GreekCatholic Church from Romania in the time of the communist regime.
Mesagerul Sfantului Anton nr. 127/noiembrie-decembrie 2014, 2014
Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Theologia Catholica, 2020
Located in the space adjacent to the Pannonian Plain-close to a compact,territory where most of t... more Located in the space adjacent to the Pannonian Plain-close to a compact,territory where most of the Hungarian population is Roman-Catholic and Calvinist-the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea is today the religious institution under whose jurisdiction the Romanians from Bihor, Sátmar and Sálaj Counties are. Reduced as number after the years of the communist persecution (1948-1989), the parochial communities of this eparchy are today small islands in a sea of Orthodox communities with which they share the liturgical and spiritual heritage of Byzantine tradition, the external differences, those of the religious ceremonies, being a few words and phrases that are spoken during the liturgy (reference to the Pope, "Lord have pity[...]" instead of "Lord have mercy [...]", "Holy Spirit" instead of "Holy Ghost" etc.). Yet, which is the Greek-Catholics' identity, since they share the same Orthodox Byzantine tradition, but, at a theological level, share the same tenets with the Roman-Catholics? Was or was not the Byzantine tradition an important factor that contributed to the passing of the Greek-Catholics to Orthodoxy in the period 1948-1989? This paper wants to give an answer to these questions, carefully analyzing the aspects of Byzantine tradition from the history of the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Oradea-Mare, in the period 1850-1900, on a territory where the Romanian Greek-Catholicism has held, until 1948, the highest percentage of believers. 1853 brings a profound change in the life of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, the Greek-Catholic Episcopacy of Alba Iulia and Fágára §, located in Blaj, coming up to the rank of Mitropoly, thereby constituting a new church province, consisting of four Romanian eparchies (Alba Iulia and Fágára?, Oradea, Gherla and Lugoj) and that was subordinate directly to the Holy See. It was the moment of a new beginning, the settlement and perfection of the status of the new metropolitan province, according to the pontifical decrees and the sociopolitical situations of the time, thing made with the help of the three Provincial Synods from 1872, 1882 and 1900. These Synods have clearly defined the specific of the Byzantine tradition of the Romanian Greek-Catholics, being made also changes in the canonical law, especially regarding the synodical issue, the problem of the sacrament of marriage and of the Protopopes' ecclesiastic-legal status 1. These changes have not substantially affected the ritual * Librarian, PhD, County Library "Gheorghe Sincai" Bihor, Oradea (Romania).
Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Theologia Graeco Catholica Varadiensis, 2006
Apulum: Arheologie. Istorie. Etnografie, 2008
... Aspecte din activitatea clerului superior din Eparhia Romana Unita de Oradea (1850 - 1900). I... more ... Aspecte din activitatea clerului superior din Eparhia Romana Unita de Oradea (1850 - 1900). Identitatea, formarea si misiunea protopopilor. Autores: Silviu-Iulian Sana; Localización: Apulum: Arheologie. Istorie. Etnografie, ISSN 1013-428X, Vol. 45, Nº. 1, 2008 , págs. 429-440. ...
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Catholica, 2018
Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Theologia Graeco Catholica Varadiensis, 2004
Il presente articolo fa riferimento diretto agli eventi avvenuti nello spazio vicino alla Transil... more Il presente articolo fa riferimento diretto agli eventi avvenuti nello spazio vicino alla Transilvania, chiamato nei documenti del tempo Partium. In maniera significativa, l'inchiesta in discussione fa luce sulle realtà religiose romene dalla provincia Bihor dei primi decenni del XVIII° secolo, abbastanza poco conosciuta per causa della mancanza di documenti concludenti, il che ha permesso interpretazioni tendenziose, lontane dalla verità storica.
Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai Theologia Graeco Catholica Varadiensis, 2005
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Catholica, 2020
This rewiew is published in Studia UBB Th. Catholica 65 (LXV), 2020, 1-2
Studia UBB Theologia Catholica, 2020