Interconfessional relations (orthodox-greek-catholic) during return to orthodoxy in 1918-1928. On the example of Transilvaniya)
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. II [XVII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
During the period of 2000-2007 the author of the present article studied the problems regarding the return of a part of population of Transylvania from the Greco-Roman religion to Orthodoxy after the Union of 1918.
For the first time the author of the article brings in the scientific circulation new materials discovered in the Archives of Transylvania. He points out the existing theories at that time concerning the church property (“the assets of the Church are the property of Christ or of the poor people (p. 3), or are the property of the Pope and respectively of the episcopacies subordinated to the Pope etc.”). The author has examined the difficult process of redistribution of church assets when the parish decided to pass from Greco-Catholicism to Orthodoxy. Very often it has been necessary the intervention of the Romanian State in the solution of inter-confessional problems.
On the base of different materials and documents of that time, including those of the Romanian Parliament, the author demonstrates that the Transylvanians have faced with a lot of problems related with the return to the Romanian Orthodox Church, as for example, the obtaining of the christening acts, the maintenance of orthodox priests, the determination of the religion of children, etc.
The item is the lower part of a leg of a festive table made of white and gray marble. In the upper part, it has a protrusion, similar to a Doric capital, on the horizontal platform of which a square recess is engraved, designed to fix the second part of the leg (upper). The lower part of the leg is made in an anthropomorphic style, and, in our opinion, there are two variants of identifying the depicted character...
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The item is the lower part of a leg of a festive table made of white and gray marble. In the upper part, it has a protrusion, similar to a Doric capital, on the horizontal platform of which a square recess is engraved, designed to fix the second part of the leg (upper). The lower part of the leg is made in an anthropomorphic style, and, in our opinion, there are two variants of identifying the depicted character. The first involves the image of the head of the young Heracles (Heracles - Ἡρακλῆς) (beardless), the most favorite hero of antiquity, wearing on his head the skin of the Nemean lion - Λέων της Νεμέας, a vicious monster from Greek mythology who lived in Nemea and was eventually killed by Heracles. The first labor of Heracles, of the twelve set by King Eurystheus (his cousin), was to kill the Nemean lion and bring his skin to the king. It is also known from Greek mythology that the lion of Nemea took the form of a beautiful woman in order to seduce the inhabitants of neighboring villages, who wanted to save the girl from danger. Upon entering the cave, a man saw the woman, who usually pretended to be wounded, and rushed to help her. When he approached her, the woman turned into a lion and killed him. Then the lion devoured the man, giving his bones to Hades - ᾍδης, the god of Hell, who lived in the kingdom of shadows. The second version of the anthropomorphic image interpretation suggests Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia in the second half of the 4th century BC, one of the most famous heroes of the Greek world, who sometimes is depicted as Hercules - wearing a lion's skin. Some researchers consider the custom of wearing the skin of a slain lion a sign of royal power. The word βασιλεύς itself, translated from ancient Greek, means "walking the path of the lion", that is, the king. This title was held by the Greek kings from the Homeric period, and later, starting from the 7th century AD - by the Byzantine emperors.
