PORTRAIT: Calinic of Cernica – the first saint canonized in the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Avaton for the Frăsina Monastery, the only one in Romania where women are not allowed

On Friday, April 11, the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates, on the 157th anniversary of his death, Saint Hierarch Callinic of Cernica, an unsurpassed preacher, a servant full of the Holy Spirit, a humble and pious monk, a skilled counselor for the downcast, a doctor for the sick and a bishop with a life full of grace and a maker of […]