Posted on 01/24/2022 5:52:37 PM PST by marshmallow
The President of Romania has bestowed the National Order of Merit upon a priest who reposed earlier this month, who was instrumental in the fight for democracy in Romania in the late 80s and early 90s.
Fr. Sorin Grecu held a hunger strike before the statue of Lenin that once stood on Bucharest’s Free Press Square, which led to the monument’s dismantling.
The site of the President of Romania reports:
The President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, signed the decree for the post-mortem decoration of Fr. Grecu Sorin Paul.
Thus, as a sign of high appreciation and gratitude for the courage with which he defended religious freedom and the principles of democracy, both before and after the events of December 1989, as well as for his significant contribution to the coagulation and support of the Romanian community in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the President of Romania post-mortem awarded the National Order “For Merit” in the rank of Knight to Fr. Grecu Sorin Paul, pastor of the Orthodox Church “St. Paul the Apostle and All Romanian Saints” in East Ham, London.
Fr. Sorin reposed in the Lord on January 6 at the age of 61. He served in the priesthood for 41 years. The first church he served was in Peretu, Teleorman County, which he himself founded despite persecution from the Securitate.
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
Meanwhile, in Seattle...
If someone did that in Seattle, Antifa would burn their house down.
Wow, reposed on the Forefeast of the Nativity. Reposing within one week of Nativity or Pascha (the Resurrection) is consider blessed in Orthodox tradition. Memory eternal, may his soul dwell with the blessed.
Can we find similar heroes to take down Saint George Floyd & BLM Satanic statues and propaganda in America ?
RIP.
Portland took down their statue... of an elk.
When will the young Italian man who threw Pachamama into the Tiber be honored?
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