THE INVESTIGATION AND THE TRIAL OF THE MONK AGATON (SANDU TUDOR).THE PARADOXICAL TWIN SITUATION VICTIM-EXECUTIONER

Abstract

Father Daniil Sandu Tudor remains one of the most solar personalities in the perimeter of Romanian spirituality, a figure that indelibly imprinted the Romanian intellectuality, both the secular and the ecclesiastical one, through the conviviality of the Rugul Aprins (The Burning Bush). But in the following, as the title of the present study also states, the author intends to deal only with the issue of Sandu Tudor's reception during the Second World War, when, as it is known, he was mobilized. File no. 013495, vol. 1 and 2, Criminal fund, located at the Archive of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (A.C.N.S.A.S.), represents a collection of disturbing documents that offers many clear (the author considers them as so) details related to this subject. From the first sheet of the aforementioned file, vol. 1, represented by the Cover of the File no. 1811/1950, of the Bucharest Court, the Third Criminal Section, „Posteucă Dumitru and Teodorescu Alexandru”, the mention „War crime” shocks. Of course, this raises multiple questions. In the following, the author will use an evolutionary, chronological x-ray of the data, meant to offer the potential reader a systematic form of exposing the conduct of the investigation and of the trial of the Monk Agaton.

Keywords

• sandu tudor
• alexandru teodorescu
• monk agaton
• orthodoxy
• the burning bush