The Background of Romanian History
Each country is interesting in itself, but it is often more interesting to consider what is its significance for the development of mankind, for the culture of humanity as a whole. The older school of historical writing concentrated on establishing individual facts, while the broad lines of historical development were often neglected. For this reason the public, while buying the books, was but little impressed by them. Nowadays the main attention of the historian shall be directed towards tracing the great currents which penetrate and inspire national societies, and the syntheses created within their limits.
I will try to bring before my audience the significance of Romania’s past in different ages: in antiquity, in the Middle Ages, and in the more recent periods of Continental history.
Firstly, Romania can show an unbroken continuity of those elements which dominated European prehistory. Her soil is rich in treasures belonging to the millennia which preceded the appearance of written language. The manner of construction of the small huts and of the better houses in the village – and such elements were transmitted to later forms of art —, the superstitions, the character of the popular arts, as displayed in the rugs and carpets, in the shirts, in the woodcarving, the ornamental spoons and spindles, the met-alwork, belts and the like – all go back to prehistoric times. >>>>>
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Archbishop NATHANIEL was born in Aurora IL, on June 12, 1940, to a family of Romanian heritage (County of Satu Mare) who attended the Saint Michael the Archangel Romanian Greek-Catholic Church in Aurora. Having gained from his experiences at Saint Michael’s a desire to serve the Lord as a priest, he attended Saint Procopius College, a Benedictine-operated liberal arts school and “Pontifical Eastern Rite Center” in Lisle IL.
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