{"id":253042,"date":"2019-09-26T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=253042"},"modified":"2019-09-26T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:19:27","slug":"european-day-of-languages-romanian-saints-who-were-polyglots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/european-day-of-languages-romanian-saints-who-were-polyglots\/","title":{"rendered":"European Day of Languages: Romanian Saints who were polyglots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the context of the European Day of Languages, we tried to find the polyglots among the list of Romanian Saints. Here\u2019s what we have found:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruler Prince Saint Neagoe Basarab<\/strong> (September 26) spoke Romanian (mother tongue), Slavonic, Greek, Latin, Turkish, German, and Hungarian. Before becoming the ruler prince of Wallachia, he worked as postelnic, one of the closest counsellors of the Voivode in foreign affairs and had to speak several foreign languages.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_252935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252935\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-252935 \" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/neagoe-basarab2-626x890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"458\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruler Prince Saint Neagoe Basarab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Hieromartyr Saint Anthimos the Iberian, Metropolitan of Wallachia<\/strong> (September 27) knew Greek, Romanian, Slavonic, Arabic, Turkish and Georgian (mother tongue).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208355\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-208355\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sf.-Ier.-Martir-Antim-Ivireanul-mitropolitul-\u021a\u0103rii-Rom\u00e2ne\u0219ti-2-1-741x890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"384\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Anthimos the Iberian, metropolitan of Wallachia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saint Andrew Saguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania<\/strong> (November 30) spoke Romanian (mother tongue), Hungarian, German, Greek, Slavonic, Serbian, and French.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218420\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218420\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sfantul-ierarh-andrei-saguna-mitropolitul-ardealului.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Andrew Saguna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saint Dositheus, Metropolitan of Moldavia<\/strong> (December 13) was fluent in Romanian (mother tongue), Greek, Latin, Slavonic, Polish, and Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_220897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220897\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-220897\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sfantul-Ierarh-Dosoftei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Dositheus, Metropolitan of Moldavia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saint Antipas of Calapodesti<\/strong> or of Valaam Monastery (January 10) spoke Romanian (mother tongue), Greek and Russian.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224143\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-224143\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sf-Antipa-Calapodesti-621x890.jpeg\" alt=\"Sf. Cuv. Antipa de la Calapode\u0219ti\" width=\"339\" height=\"486\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venerable Antipas the Athonite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saint Jacob of Putna, Metropolitan of Moldavia<\/strong> (May 15) knew Romanian (mother tongue), Greek and Slavonic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253044\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-253044\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sf-Iacob-Putneanul-627x8901-627x890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"447\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Jacob of Putna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saint Barlaam the Metropolitan of Moldavia<\/strong> (August 30) mastered Romanian (mother tongue), Latin, Greek and Slavonic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253046\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-253046\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/30-d-e280a0-sf-ierarhi-639x8901-639x890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"545\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Barlaam of Moldavia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Photo: cotidiene.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of the European Day of Languages, we tried to find the polyglots among the list of Romanian Saints. Here\u2019s what we have found: Ruler Prince Saint Neagoe Basarab (September 26) spoke Romanian (mother tongue), Slavonic, Greek, Latin, Turkish, German, and Hungarian. Before becoming the ruler prince of Wallachia, he worked as postelnic,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20893,15616,10010,15617,20894,3939],"class_list":["post-253042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-european-day-of-languages","tag-limbi-en","tag-orthodox-saints","tag-poligloti-en","tag-polyglot","tag-romanian-saints"],"better_featured_image":{"id":253043,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":600,"height":404,"file":"2018\/05\/poliglot.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"poliglot-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/poliglot-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":253042,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/poliglot.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=253042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253042\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253043\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=253042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=253042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=253042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}