Valeriu Anania: Two hymnological icons The article refers to the volume File de acatist (Acathist Pages) by the
writer Valeriu Anania, where we find the acatists of St. John the Wallachian
and St. Hierarch Calinic from Cernica. Adopting the hymn-acathist formula,
Valeriu Anania achieves another unique literary approach. In Romanian
literature, the acathist as a poetic formula is unusual. In choosing the
formula of the acathist, he was inspired by the Byzantine poets and in his
ceremony of discourse „the hymnic jubilee is conjugated with the humble and
solemn intonation” and choosing his own way which makes him different from the
orthodox Gândirea literary movement. In the acathist dedicated to St. John the
Wallachian, the worship of St. John the Wallachian is full of ardor. The second
cycle of File de Acathist, dedicated to Saint Calinic from Cernica, is
complementary to the first and completing the portrait of the one who chose the
path of the purifying monasticism, irradiating light and being a support for
his brothers in suffering. DOINA POLOGEA |
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