{"id":1563,"date":"2017-07-26T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T09:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T09:31:38","slug":"blessed-constantin-oprisan-martyr-of-jilava-romania-1921-26th-of-july-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Constantin Oprisan, Martyr of Jilava, Romania (1921 \u2013 26th of July 1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8434\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/oprisan2-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8433\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/oprisan1-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Father <strong>George Calciu<\/strong>: \u201cHe did not talk much, but every word coming from his mouth was a holy word \u2013 only about Christ, only about love, only about forgiveness. He was praying unceasingly&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elder<strong> Dumitru Bordeianu\u00a0<\/strong>: \u201cThere was nobody more tortured like <strong>Constantin<\/strong>! He was arrested on 15<sup>th<\/sup> of May 1948 and condemned for 25 years. He was a man of an extraordinary complexity and intelligence, being a master of many spheres, from music and art, to mathematics and philosophy. <strong>Constantin<\/strong> was a very affectionate man, living everything to the maximum. He was subjected to the greatest torture, being also beaten for every other young legionnaire, resisting with such heroism, unequaled&#8230; He was a Saint while still living&#8230; we were all felling the presence of the Holy Spirit in the cell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When there were conflicts among us, he was praying and his praying was working. We knew that he was praying, silently, and his face was completely changed. Holy Martyr <strong>Constantin<\/strong> moved to Heavens at 37 years of age, after a long suffering, without any complaint but giving support to everybody else!<\/p>\n<p>Blessed <strong>Constantin<\/strong>, Holy Confessor and Martyr of Christ, pray to God for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father George Calciu: \u201cHe did not talk much, but every word coming from his mouth was a holy word \u2013 only about Christ, only about love, only about forgiveness. He was praying unceasingly&#8230;\u201d Elder Dumitru Bordeianu\u00a0: \u201cThere was nobody more tortured like Constantin! He was arrested on 15th of May 1948 and condemned for 25 [&hellip;]<\/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-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","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=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}