{"id":386142,"date":"2022-08-17T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=386142"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:02:48","slug":"saint-constantine-brancoveanu-honoured-in-bucharest-we-have-had-great-rulers-before-but-none-like-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/saint-constantine-brancoveanu-honoured-in-bucharest-we-have-had-great-rulers-before-but-none-like-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Constantine Br\u00e2ncoveanu honoured in Bucharest: \u201cWe have had great rulers before, but none like him\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The martyrdom of Saint Constantine Br\u00e2ncoveanu represents one of the most beautiful pages of history in the great book of Romanians, said His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova on Monday at the New Saint George Church in Bucharest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had great rulers who loved their country. Such were Saint Stephen, Matthew Basarab, the Corvins, Michael the Brave and others, but none like him,\u201d the Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest underlined on August 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone so devoted to his Church and country, none so devoted to his subjects, who preferred peace than see the country laid waste and men dying in wars. His love for the Principality of Wallachia was boundless. That\u2019s why the Church honours him. That\u2019s why people consider him, if not the greatest, among the greatest rulers that the Romanian land has had.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova celebrating the Divine Liturgy at the entrance of the New St George Church in Bucharest for the feast of the Holy Br\u00e2ncoveanu Martyrs, August 16, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe Church considers him one of the great founders, a supporter of Orthodoxy and, above all, a confessor, a martyr, who did not place anything above love for God, not even wealth, country, family,\u201d the hierarch said.<\/p>\n

Assistant Bishop Timotei stressed the value of the Brancovan foundations, noting that many of them are known worldwide and represent \u201cthe most beautiful business cards that Romania has today.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of these foundations is the New Saint George Church at Bucharest\u2019s Kilometre 0. The place of worship keeps the honourable relics of Saint Constantine Br\u00e2ncoveanu.<\/p>\n

This year marked 30 years since the canonization of the Br\u00e2ncoveanu Martyrs. On this occasion, the relics of Saint Anthony of Iezerul Valcii, a Romanian ascetic canonized in 1992, were brought for veneration from Iezer Monastery to Bucharest.<\/p>\n

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The relics of Saint Anthony of Iezerul Valcii were brought to Bucharest for the feast of the Holy Br\u00e2ncoveanu Martyrs. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Emanuela Ene<\/p>\n

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The martyrdom of Saint Constantine Br\u00e2ncoveanu represents one of the most beautiful pages of history in the great book of Romanians, said His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova on Monday at the New Saint George Church in Bucharest. \u201cWe have had great rulers who loved their country. Such were Saint Stephen, Matthew Basarab, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26751],"tags":[16664,9031],"class_list":["post-386142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucharest-archdiocese","tag-holy-brancoveanu-martyrs","tag-saint-constantine-brancoveanu"],"better_featured_image":{"id":386050,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":2048,"height":1365,"file":"2022\/08\/sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29.jpg","filesize":2853628,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":196228,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":247556,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-1024x683.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":55287,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":509103,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29-1536x1024.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":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sfantul-gheorghe-nou-2022-29.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386142\/"}],"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=386142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386142\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386050\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=386142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=386142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=386142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}