{"id":1559,"date":"2017-07-17T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2017-07-17T19:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:19:25","slug":"radu-gyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Radu Gyr"},"content":{"rendered":"

2\/03\/1905 – 29\/04\/1975<\/p>\n

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Radu Gyr (Demetrescu)<\/em> was an extraordinary man, with a heart as large as the sky with its beauties! He spent many years in communist extermination camps, suffering extreme punishments. In spite of these tortures, Radu Gyr<\/em> wrote very daring pieces of literature, while suffering of diverse illnesses and depravations in prison, and after his fierce detention. He was a remarkable leader, within the Legion of Archangel Michael, the only true Orthodox movement of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

The following passage is translated from the address below, containing fragments written by Octavian Voinea<\/em> who spent time in prison with Radu Gyr<\/em>: http:\/\/ortodoxinfo.ro\/2017\/04\/29\/sinaxarul-sfintilor-din-inchisori-marele-poet-national-radu-gyr\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRomanian literature without Radu Gyr<\/em> looks like an ugly bride\u2026 The Lord did not forget us completely, as He sent to us a guide, a guardian angel, who as a maestro, knew how to play the harp while we were on the way of despair\u2026 \u00a0Radu Gyr<\/em> was not a strategist to lead the Legion of the Archangel Michael through the swamp of those times of darkness. He was the fire which melted the strongest steels. He was a light not just for his comrades, but for the whole Romanian nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the twentieth year of his imprisonment, these villains thought to give the tone of re-education with him, Radu Gyr<\/em>. To make him to bow his head in front of the haughty persecutors! His name and his poems were interwoven with prayers to God, from all the tormented ones. Radu Gyr<\/em> tasted in full the barbarian regime of the extermination prisons. When he was on the brink to die, he was taken to the infirmary to be \u2018saved\u2019, for new tortures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRadu Gyr<\/em>, the great poet, died on 29th<\/sup> of April 1975, twelve years since his release from imprisonment. In complete silence all the ones who knew him, the heart of the Orthodox Movement, prayed to the Lord for his soul who departed. Radu Gyr<\/em> was buried on 2nd<\/sup> of May, just on the Great Friday, when the Christians commemorate Christ\u2019s Crucifixion\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRadu Gyr<\/em>\u2019s poetry is so great, that if it would be published entirely, the whole atheist & communist gatherings would hide in the most remote places of the rubbish bin of history, where nobody will search anything, anymore. Radu Demetrescu Gyr <\/em>is not just a Romanian poet, but he is belonging to the whole mankind, as a guidance and glory to the generations to come.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Presently, our beloved Radu Gyr<\/em> is again ostracized by serious attempts to remove his name given to certain places, as a memorial. Our brother into Christ, born as a Jew, was a staunch Orthodox believer who was also trying to appease the ones from his old stock. This is one of the main reasons for such on-going punishments, until today\u2026 On his death bed, Father George Calciu<\/em>, another Saint of the Prisons, said:\u00a0 \u201cThey will fight with us as dead, but we will be next to you, the living, who are fighting the oppressor. Even not alive on this earth, we will be victorious!\u201d<\/p>\n

We tried to translate into English a specific poem, written in prison. While being punished for many years, this particular production attracted death punishment for Radu Gyr<\/em>! It was one of those moments when the oppressor was really stumbling. Many, many of his companions learnt it by heart and passed it to the others. In the most recent years (after 1990) this poem was \u2018legally\u2019 published in Romania, and looked at as a \u2018new\u2019 discovery.\u00a0 On the other hand, it was hard to translate such poetry due to the extraordinary language used: yes, almost impossible to discover equivalent words in English, to the Romanian ones. Nevertheless, we tried\u2026<\/p>\n

Get up you George and get up you Johnny!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Not for a fresh bread made in the oven,<\/em>
\nnot for the barns or acres and tawny,<\/em>
\nbut for tomorrow free air unwoven,<\/em>
\nget up you George and get up you Johnny!<\/em><\/p>\n

For your people\u2019s blood spilled on the plains,<\/em>
\nfor your vivid chants nailed by the brawny,<\/em>
\nfor your bright tear that\u2019s kept in the chains,<\/em>
\nget up you George and get up you Johnny!<\/em><\/p>\n

Not for the gnashing of teeth in distaste,<\/em>
\nbut collect shouting on meadows bonny<\/em>
\nheap of horizons and stars that are chased,<\/em>
\nget up you George and get up you Johnny!<\/em><\/p>\n

Like that go to drink the freedom from pail<\/em>
\nto immerse like a sky in its jolly<\/em>
\napricots flowers snowing on you, hail,<\/em>
\nget up you George and get up you Johnny!<\/em><\/p>\n

And then to touch with your embracing kiss<\/em>
\non Icons, porch, doors and on balcony,<\/em>
\non things of freedom you encounter bliss,<\/em>
\nget up you George and get up you Johnny!<\/em><\/p>\n

Get up you George, on ropes and on chains!<\/em>
\nGet up you Johnny, holy bones from gorge!<\/em>
\nupwards to light after fire full reigns,<\/em>
\nget up you Johnny and get up you George!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ridica-te Gheorghe, ridica-te Ioane!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Nu pentru-o lopat\u0103 de rumen\u0103 p\u00e2ine,<\/em>
\nnu pentru patule, nu pentru pogoane,
\nci pentru v\u0103zduhul t\u0103u liber de m\u00e2ine,
\nridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, ridic\u0103-te, Ioane!<\/em><\/p>\n

Pentru s\u00e2ngele neamului t\u0103u curs prin \u015fan\u0163uri,<\/em>
\npentru c\u00e2ntecul t\u0103u \u0163intuit \u00een piroane,
\npentru lacrima soarelui t\u0103u pus \u00een lan\u0163uri,
\nridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, ridic\u0103-te, Ioane!<\/em><\/p>\n

Nu pentru mania scr\u00e2\u015fnit\u0103-n m\u0103sele,<\/em>
\nci ca s\u0103 aduni chiuind pe tapsane
\no claie de z\u0103ri \u015fi-o c\u0103ciula de stele,
\nridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, ridic\u0103-te, Ioane!<\/em><\/p>\n

A\u015fa, ca s\u0103 bei libertatea din ciuturi<\/em>
\n\u015fi-n ea s\u0103 te-afunzi ca un cer \u00een bulboane
\n\u015fi z\u0103rz\u0103rii ei peste tine s\u0103-i scuturi,
\nridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, ridic\u0103-te, Ioane!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u015ei ca s\u0103 pui tot s\u0103rutul fierbinte<\/em>
\npe praguri, pe prispe, pe u\u015fi, pe icoane,
\npe toate ce slobode-\u0163i ies inainte,
\nridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, ridic\u0103-te, Ioane!<\/em><\/p>\n

Ridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, pe lan\u0163uri, pe funii!<\/em>
\nRidic\u0103-te, Ioane, pe sfinte ciolane!
\n\u015ei sus, spre lumina din urm\u0103-a furtunii,
\nridic\u0103-te, Gheorghe, ridic\u0103-te, Ioane!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2\/03\/1905 – 29\/04\/1975 Radu Gyr (Demetrescu) was an extraordinary man, with a heart as large as the sky with its beauties! He spent many years in communist extermination camps, suffering extreme punishments. In spite of these tortures, Radu Gyr wrote very daring pieces of literature, while suffering of diverse illnesses and depravations in prison, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}