{"id":340261,"date":"2021-11-02T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=340261"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:25:34","slug":"elder-victorin-who-tonsured-patriarch-daniel-a-monk-prayerfully-remembered-at-sihastria-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/elder-victorin-who-tonsured-patriarch-daniel-a-monk-prayerfully-remembered-at-sihastria-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Victorin, who tonsured Patriarch Daniel a monk, prayerfully remembered at Sihastria Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Grace Nichifor of Boto\u0219ani officiated last Saturday, at Sih\u0103stria (Neam\u021b) Monastery, the seven-year commemoration service for Archimandrite Victorin Oanele, the abbot who tonsured Patriarch Daniel a monk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God has always had a variety of works throughout history,&#8221; said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Ia\u0219i Archdiocese after the service. &#8220;Every human person has a calling in God&#8217;s history: a calling to fulfil one&#8217;s mission, to do a certain work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During communism, God worked in our country through people who continued to confess their faith&#8221;, added the hierarch. &#8220;Here, at Sih\u0103stria Monastery, elders like Cleopa, Ioanichie B\u0103lan, Paisie made people&#8217;s hearts better and answered their deep questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His Grace Nichifor affirmed that Archimandrite Victorin Oanele &#8220;was given the gift of encouraging people and the gift of leaving behind a monastery where people would find a good place for prayer and faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FManastireaSihastria%2Fvideos%2F577795470212864%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hierarch honoured Abbot Victorin Oanele&#8217;s firmness in his work, saying this virtue is an example for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Father Victorin carried the cross of being an Abbott, remaining steadfast and unwavering even in sickness,&#8221; said the auxiliary bishop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us thank God for his work, which benefits us to this day: this church, the stones we step on are all born from his thought,&#8221; continued His Grace Nichifor of Boto\u0219ani.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a family and all families honour their parents and ancestors, according to the Lord&#8217;s commandment. Let us pray that the Lord repose their souls and fulfil their hopes. May all who have served Him and listened to His word be given courage, understanding and real hope in this life and in the Kingdom of God,&#8221; concluded the hierarch.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Gurie of Deva and Hunedoara, who had passed to the Lord two days before, was also commemorated on the same occasion.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Archimandrite Victorin Oanele<\/strong> was born on February 1st, 1931, in Poiana village of Vr\u00e2ncioaia town, in Vrancea county. He entered monastic life in 1952. Between 1972 and 2014 he was the Abbott of Sih\u0103stria Monastery in the county of Neam\u021b &#8211; he had the longest service time as an Abbott in the history of the monastery.<\/p>\n<p>His service as an Abbott started in difficult times, during the communist regime when he benefitted from advice given by elders Cleopa Ilie and Paisie Olaru.<\/p>\n<p>He was an indefatigable builder: after 1990, he founded numerous churches and monastic buildings. He reposed in the Lord in the morning of October 24, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Mmb.ro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Grace Nichifor of Boto\u0219ani officiated last Saturday, at Sih\u0103stria (Neam\u021b) Monastery, the seven-year commemoration service for Archimandrite Victorin Oanele, the abbot who tonsured Patriarch Daniel a monk. &#8220;God has always had a variety of works throughout history,&#8221; said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Ia\u0219i Archdiocese after the service. &#8220;Every human person has a calling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":338936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18771],"tags":[10386,8158,4506,15620],"class_list":["post-340261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality-en","tag-orthodox-news","tag-patriarch-daniel-of-romania","tag-sihastria-monastery","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":338936,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1200,"height":800,"file":"2021\/10\/04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0-1024x683.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0-360x360.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":340261,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/04_manastirea_sihastria_89_0.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340261\/"}],"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\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=340261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340261\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338936\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=340261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=340261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=340261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}