{"title":"The Salva Greek-Catholic Parish (Bistriţa-Năsăud County) during the First World War and before the Great Union","authors":"I. Morariu","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Based on the information provided by the Bistrița-Năsăud Department of the Romanian National Archives, the present article tries to outline the situation of the Salva Greek-Catholic Parish during the First World War. We regard the role played by Priest Iuliu Morariu as quite important, for he has led this community between 1907 and 1946, and helped to preserve the spirit of national identity and morals in the context of the organised denationalisation activity promoted by the Austro-Hungarian authorities. This article also discusses the general situation of the village, the activity of the pupils from this Parish during the aforementioned period, and the way in which national identity was preserved thanks to the activity of the Greek-Catholic Gymnasium of the former Military Border District in Năsăud (town in the neighbourhood of Salva). Aspects like marriage, birth, child mortality, the lives of those who remained at home, that of the wounded soldiers coming back, the contribution of the Church to the formation of Romanian intellectuals (like the correspondent member of the Romanian Academy, physician Leon Daniello, who graduated from the above-mentioned Gymnasium of Năsăud during the war), and the peoples’ efforts despite the unfavourable context are emphasized here, in a research in which the documentary sources are compared with the pauper historiography on the investigated topic.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121331291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Girls’ Preparandia of Gherla. The first years (1915-1919)","authors":"Mirela Popa Andrei","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The Great War affected all areas of social life, including the education process organized by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The lack of teaching staff in the Romanian denominational schools of Transylvania determined the bishops to send numerous requests to the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction, with the purpose of obtaining exemption from military service for the teaching staff, a procedure which rarely received a favorable answer. This was the context in which the ecclesiastical and political authorities raised the possibility of a considerable substitution of the male with female teaching staff. The Girls’ School of Gherla opened on September 5, 1915, and it was the second Greek-Catholic preparandia for girls. As in the case of the Institute of Lugoj (opened in 1914), the one in Gherla was dedicated to Romanian girls regardless of their confessions. It is important to note that after investigating the context and causes that led to the opening of the first pedagogical confessional schools for girls (normal schools/teaching institutes) in Romanian Transylvanian society, we can conclude that the First World War has, indeed, triggered fundamental change in gender relationships, including in education. For the Romanian girls of Transylvania, this opened the perspective of their professional training for becoming elementary school teachers. This was accomplished after setting up specialized institutions in this field, and the Girls’ Preparandia of Gherla is one of them.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123139735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tragedia degli armeni negli anni della Grande Guerra. Storia, memoria, letteratura","authors":"Giuseppe Munarini","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Riassunto: Questo articolo ha come base la conferenza fatta dal professore Giuseppe Munarini all’Istituto di Storia Ecclesiastica „Nicolae Bocșan” dell’Università Babeș-Bolyai di Cluj-Napoca, il 7 dicembre 2017. Giuseppe Munarini lavora da molti anni su argomenti di ricerca legati alla storia, cultura e vita religiosa degli armeni, i suoi contributi sono quindi noti sia in Italia che in Romania. Nel presente materiale viene realizzata una breve sintesi degli eventi di un secolo fa, negli anni della Prima Guerra Mondiale, quando uno dei più antichi popoli della storia europea fu sottoposto ad una politica sistematica di purificazione etnica di cui esito fu un’immane tragedia collettiva che soffrì la comunità armena della Turchia di allora. L’autore si sofferma prevalentemente sulla dimensione spirituale dell’identità di questo popolo e passa in rassegna, al contempo, numerosi contributi sul tema, apparsi soprattutto in Italia, dal campo della storiografia, memorialistica e letteratura.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"363 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124565192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From “Patriot” to “Country Traitor”. The Espionage Accusation Brought to Monk Árkád Pásztory. Part I: The Reports of Detective Ede Sperling","authors":"Ciprian-Emanuel Honca","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This study is an attempt for clarifying a less known episode in the life of the Brazilian Monk Árkád Pásztory, i.e. the motives and circumstances under which he became a suspect of country treason during the First World War. Thus, in this article we present a first part of a long events series of the trial whose documents have been kept in Budapest, at the National Archives of Hungary.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122530539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Edification of Churches in the ‘80s of the 20th Century in Northern Transylvania. A Case Study","authors":"Cosmin Cosmuţa","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The end of World War II, in the context of the presence of the Soviet army in Romania, meant for our country the establishment of a new political regime: the communist one. This was a difficult period of time for all the Churches because the regime tried to push them to the periphery of society. Under these circumstances, we focused on one case that illustrates how a parish of the Romanian Orthodox Church, placed in the Bistrița-Năsăud County, managed in the ‘80s to build a new church, although the state authorities did not agree to it. It was neither simple nor risk-free. As proof stands that, despite the protection he managed to offer, the Eparchial Center of Cluj was forced, in order to put the vigilance of the authorities to sleep, to \"\"punish\"\" the priest, sending him for a whole month to the monastery. As a conclusion, we can say that in the last decade of the communist regime there was a weakening of the pressure over the Church, which allowed, at the level of the whole country, the construction of a quite large number of places of worship.\"","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130202595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healing of Memories in Romania – A Bridge between Churches, Cultures and Religions – A Project of Loving one’s Neighbour","authors":"Olga Lukács","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The Christians’ ”healing of memories” is a comprehensive project, which requires the cooperation among history, cultural studies, psychology and sociology. In Romania, the Healing of Memories project (hereinafter referred to as HoMR) has aimed at implementing the Charta Oecumenica. The project was preceded by an interconfessional and interdisciplinary study and consultation. The study compared the historic perspectives of the churches, denominations and cultures in Romania. The outstanding historical perspective of the healing of memories process aimed at gaining access to the various religious and historic perspectives, the participants learning as much as possible about each other, accept the others’ approach and share the pain caused by different historic events with each other. The project dealt with the positive relationships among the churches as well as the conflicts and the offences, judgments and misunderstandings that the different nationalities, cultures and religious denominations encountered during the centuries. Overcoming the inner, deep injuries could open new possibilities for coexistence, and Transylvania could become a role model in the future for the entire Europe. According to Johnston McMaster the concrete steps in the healing of memories are the following: ”1. a walk together in history. 2. sharing each other’s pain, 3. preparation for the future”. In the Healing of memories project, 16 theological research and educational institutions, 7 history departments and 2 sociology departments took part. Furthermore, other six institutions were contacted and over 300 colleagues participated in the workshops and conferences. What was the general objective of the HoM project? It was recollection and beyond recollection mutually getting acquainted with, understanding, accepting and sympathising with each other. The Healing of Memories project was a true success.\"","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133198204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through Russia, for the Romanian Cause: Vicar Iacob Popa and the Recruitment of Volunteers among Romanian prisoners","authors":"Mihai-Octavian Groza, Diana-Maria Dăian","doi":"10.24193/jch.2020.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2020.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The subject regarding the participation of Romanian prisoner soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army in theaters of operations of the Romanian Kingdom’s Army is very extensive and of great interest. General and specialty literature, memoirs, studies, articles, collections of documents, etc. issued during the war and, above all, in the post-war period, as well as rich archive sources allow a relatively original approach on this phenomenon. Starting from the contact with various archives, memoirs, and secondary sources, the present paper is an attempt to retrace the setup stages of the first Transylvanian and Bukovinian Romanian Volunteer Corps in Russia and the activity of Vicar Iacob Popa in enlisting and enrolling volunteers. Iacob Popa is an almost unknown and equally unstudied figure of historical Blaj. He lived and worked in a time of great national and political unrest for the Romanians in Transylvania in the first half of the 20th century. We attempted to outline several stages of his activity, starting with the moment he volunteered for the enlistment commissions in Russia and continuing with his propaganda work for enlisting prisoners from Transylvania, Bukovina and Banat in the Romanian Army, as well as with the records of his successes and failures in the mission he was entrusted with. The last part of the study is dedicated to the events that marked the end of the volunteer enlistment activity.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116748328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}