Vladimir Ghika, professeur d'espérance
de Francisca Baltaceanu , Monica Brosteanu
Collection L'Histoire à vif
496 pages - août 2013
34,00€
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Born in 1873 in Istanbul, this Rumanian prince, converted from the Orthodox faith to Catholicism, lived through two earth-shaking historical events: World War 1, which swept away empires and favoured the birth of the nation States in Central Europe; and World War 2, in which ideologies and dictatorships engaged in a merciless combat, in their attempt to subjugate the world. A lay missionary who was ordained priest at the age of fifty in the diocese of Paris, the pioneer of a fruitful dialogue for the unity of Christians between the East and the European West, the friend of many Catholic intellectuals— Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Paul Claudel, Charles Du Bos, Yves Congar among others—, Vladimir Ghika was a major figure of 20th century Christianity. Famed for his immense charity, he died a martyr’s death in Bucharest in 1954. The political changes that took place in Rumania after December 1989 made it possible to carry out research in the archives. Hence, a great many documents about Mgr. Ghika were available for this biography, which was published simultaneously in Rumania and in France on the occasion of his beatification, celebrated in Bucharest on Saturday August 31, 2013. Many testimonies from victims of communist persecution, Mgr. Ghika’s cellmates in the Jilava prison, those who watched over the last hours of his life, have also been gathered and presented here.
- Dimensions : 145x215x26
- ISBN : 9782204100830
- Poids : 665 grammes
Avec la collaboration de : Andrei Brezianu, Emanuel Cosmovici, Luc Verly, Philippe Brizard