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176 adina Berciu-drĂGhiceScu
Vladislav I, neagoe Basarab, radu paisie, Matei Basarab, Constantin
Brâncoveanu, Ştefan cel Mare, Petru rareş, Alexandru lăpuşneanu, Petru
Şchiopu and, last but not least, the Phanariot rulers Nicolae and constantin
Mavrocordat, Grigorie and scarlat Ghica, Mihail racoviţă, Mihail suţu,
Alexandru Ipsilanti a.o. 5
one aided the monasteries of cutlumuş, dionisiu, ivir, Pantrocrator,
Saint paul, xiropotam, hilandar, Dohia, Vatoped, zografu, Caracalu a.o.,
the first of the above being considered the Great romanian large Monastery.
In the 14 th –16 th centuries the first “worships” of romanian monasteries
were performed to monasteries in the holy Mountain, meaning that a local
monastery was withdrawn from the authority of the local hierarch and
directly subordinated to an Athonite monastery, to which it sent part of its
incomes and which it governed through a Greek Abbot. Said “worships”
continued until the end of the 19 th century and ended in 1863, together with
the secularizing of the monastery estates.
the period of secularizing brought about a temporary straining of
the relations between the united principalities and the Athos Mountain.
Subsequently, within the policy initiated by Alexandru Ioan Cuza for the
establishment of schools and churches for the romanians at the South of the
Danube, one returned to the policy for the support of the holy Mountain.
In fact the national rebirth of the South-Danube romanians was also
aided by the Athonite monk of Aromanian origin Averchie of Avdela. he
administered the coenobitic community at the St. paul monastery and was
subsequently the abbot of the Ivir monastery. Sent by the Constantinople
patriarchy in the principalities in order to prevent the secularizing of the
monastery estate, he liaised with all of the leaders of said area’s public
and cultural life. upon his return to the Ivir monastery, he was accused
of betrayal and he left the holy Mountain. retired in Avdela and further
in târnovo, he recruited Aromanian young people from pind, whom he
brought to Bucharest, where they were educated at the St. Apostles school,
in order to become schoolmasters for the Aromanian children in their
motherlands 6 . In 1872 the romanian hermitage lacu received an annual
subsidy of rol 1,185 from the romanian State 7 . In March 1883 the monks
of the same hermitage complained of the hard conditions that they were
forced to deal with: the church was falling apart, the logs had been cut by
the Greek monarchs of the St. paul monastery, the tax had been increased
5 BoDoGAe, teodor, Sprijinul românesc la mânăstirile de la Sfântul Munte Athos
(Sibiu, 1940), anexele I, II.
6 BujduVEANu, Tănase, Aromânii şi Muntele Athos (constanţa, 2002), p. 35-36.
7 AnIC, fond Ministerul Cultelor, Instrucţiunii Publice, dosar 1193/1872, f. 25.