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268 MARIA PARIZA
A number of submissions on this point, is presented to us with headmaster
father Averchie, dealing with the installation and and supervision of
national moral education of these young people, who represent the first
generation of Aromanian teachers, who went to Balcan. 2
the opening of the first romanian schools in Macedonia and epir 3 ,
V.A. urechia began to get involved as a general secretary of minister of
Cults and education, together with the minister D. Bolintineanu during
M. Kogălniceanu’s government. The poet d. Bolintineanu, the son of
“cutovlah enache Cosmad”, originated from ohrida, was the first and the
most active militant of the national cause from Balcanian’s region. V.A.
urechia became the first and the most active of the romanian patriots, to
make that ideal real (Vârgolici, teodor, 1971).
the event, as a state act, had a special effect in the country through
official speeches or through the media. V.A. urechia has also used the
magazines which he directed to publicize the events linked with school and
religious life from the Aromanian localities. V.A. urechia will also use the
magazines which he directed. 4 It is clear that he was involved and it is seen
in a series of the letters which were addressed him directly from the most
famous representatives of the romanian political life. 5
We can mention M. Kogălniceanu who greeted him with the urge: “Go
ahead, my friend!” the awaking of the romanian element in Macedonia
will assure a stronger factor to romania and the prince Ion Ghica addressed
him a letter which ended in this way: “I cannot enjoy myself enough
2 Archimandrite Averchie was born in 1818, in Avdela and stayed in the country
after the improprieties of the monastic fortune from Athos. he brought from Macedonia
the first children for the open school in romania. see also BErciu-drăGhicEscu,
Adina, op. cit., 76; DIAMAnI, Sterie, Oameni şi aspecte din istoria aromânilor
(Bucureşti: cugetarea, 1940) 301-320; VElicu, ioan, “The institute from st. Apostoli
and the beginnings of the movement of the national reawaken of the Macedo-romanian”,
Romanian magazine, vol. xI-xII, (1941–1942): 272.
3 Târnova, 1864, Gopeş Avdela, ohrida, Vlaho-clisura, in 1866 and călivele near
Veria, the only schools which could be opened till 1878.
4 see “informaţiunile Bucureştenilor”, the articles Macedonia (nr. 38, 1869),
Şcoalele macedoromâne (nr. 83, 1869), o şcoala în istria (nr. 10, 1870). other articles
are refound in the publications of pasoptists: “dâmboviţa”, “Albina Pindului”, “Buletinul
instrucţiunii publice”, “Trompeta carpaţilor”, but they also appear in gazettes, in
transylvania. (A short sciri of history of romanian in the macedo-române schools, in
“Gazeta de transilvania”, nr. 30, 1867, p. 307, 311-312).
5 Sequences from the letters were published in petreSCu-BIrInA, Virgiliu,
StoICeSCu, Virgiliu and nAuM, Const. I., Românii din Macedonia: (anii 270–1901):
Închinată lui V. A. Urechia (Bucureşti: Tipografia Viitorul, 1900): 74.