Communism and Christianity: Beatification of Father Paisius of Hilendar

Abstract

With the present article, we set ourselves the task of first looking at the event context in which the beatification of Father Paisius of Hilendar took place in 1962 when the state marked the 200th anniversary of the writing of Slav-Bulgarian History. The incorporation of Father Paisius of Hilendar into the ranks of the saints takes place in the context of the restoration of the patriarchal status of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, resp. of Bulgarian-Russian political relations.