VIDEO: Abbot of New Mexico monastery offers talk at Romanian conference on saints of the prisons

VIDEO: Abbot of New Mexico monastery offers talk at Romanian conference on saints of the prisons

Poiana Teiului, Neamț Country, Romania, March 27, 2025

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On February 8, the abbot of the Orthodox Church in America’s Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael in Cañones New Mexico participated in a conference at Petru Vodă Monastery in Romania.

Abbot Silouan (Lightle) gave a talk entitled, “The Passion of the Romanian Saints in Communist Prisions” as part of the conference, “Fr. Justin Pârvu and VIDEO: Abbot of New Mexico monastery offers talk at Romanian conference on saints of the prisonsThe Life of Ioan Ianolide, Who Spent Twenty-Three Years in Prison for ChristFrom the very beginning, Ioan viewed prison as his martyrdom.

“>Confessor Ioan Ianolide: Icons of Victory Over Communist Hell in 20th-Century Romania.”

In his talk, Fr. Silouan spoke about how the Orthodox Church knows God experientially, while drawing a parallel between the Romanian saints of the prisons and the Athonite hesychast saints.

Watch his talk:

Petru Vodă Monastery was founded by the revered Romanian VIDEO: Abbot of New Mexico monastery offers talk at Romanian conference on saints of the prisonsArchimandrite Justin (Parvu)Justin (Parvu), Archimandrite

“>Elder Justin (Pârvu) in 1991, and it was there that he reposed in 2013.

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