Christian Virtues Illustrated in the Biography of the Great Buzau Politician – Alexandru Marghiloman – Craftsman of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania

Abstract

Raised in the city of Buzău, Alexandru Marghiloman covers a special place in the gallery of great personalities who have served the destiny of the Romanian nation. He has been known in historiography as a standard of sophisticated elegance and, equally, carrying the stigma of controversy. Loved and respected by those who knew him closely, he simultaneously suffered the repudiation of his political opponents and of an appreciable segment of posterity, which ignored his deeply patriotic aspirations. Like an arch over time, the present study provides us with the prospect of a modest, sincere, scrutinizing and persevering approach to the religious-moral portrait of the great craftsman of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. With ineffable joy we discover the weather-dusted face of a frank and sensitive aristocrat, with human weaknesses, but guided by the polar star of discreet Christian principles and virtues.