The Trial of the Group of 'Rugul Aprins' ('the Burning Bush')

• Author: Carmen Ciornea
• Position: Faculty de Theology, ?Ovidius' University
• Pages: 33-42

Law, Society & Organisations

Volume V, Issue 8 (1 / 2020)

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Carmen CIORNEA

Faculty de Theology – „Ovidius” University

THE TRIAL OF THE GROUP

OF “RUGUL APRINS”

(“THE BURNING BUSH”)

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Sandu Tudor;

Alexandru Teodorescu;

Monk Agaton;

Hieroschemamonk Daniil Sandu Tudor;

The Burning Bush

Abstract

The trial of the group „Teodorescu Alex. and others”, being so tragic in terms of consequences, keeps alive

only one person out of 16: Rădulescu Nicolae, Emanoil Mihăilescu passing to the eternal life on February

27, 2019. From the desire to bring more light into the investigation of the becoming of Father Daniil

Sandu Tudor during the latter part of his life, in 2015, I asked for the support of these last survivors –

Nicolae Rădulescu, Emanoil Mihăilescu – true disciples, who sacredly preserved the relief of the flames of

the Rugul Aprins (The Burning Bush) in their hearts. In fact, these people are, in our opinion, the most

able to recover the course of the Rugul Aprins, since they paid with their own freedom for belonging to this

„spiritual group”, notwithstanding the tendencies of the time which they were given to go through in this

earthly life. The same reason, of the objective restoration of the investigation and the trial of the group of

Rugul Aprins, led to the consultation of the archives of the National Council for the Study of Security

Archives (A.C.N.S.A.S.), from which we selected a series of documents regarding the topic of this research.

This time, the exercise of demistification of certain interrogation minutes, accusation ordinances etc. was

realized by these two protagonists of those – Emanoil Mihăilescu, Nicolae Rădulescu – who engaged in

this lucid effort of reconstructing the historical truth, escaping (as much as possible) the subjectivism.

JEL Classification: I20, K49, Z12