Pilgrim at the Grave of Father Arsenie Boca, Prislop Monastery (Transylvania, Romania)

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Prislop Monastery (Nunnery) is an ancient monastic hearth located in Hateg Country (Hunedoara county, Transylvania). According to tradition, the monastery was built by St. John from Tismana in the second half of the 14th century, founder of several monasteries in Wallachia. Arriving in ruins, Zamfira princess, the daughter of Moise Voda from Wallachia, rebuilt the monastery in 1564. The monastery was repeatedly attacked and looted, being rebuilt each time. Perhaps the harshest episode is the one in 1762 when the Austrian authorities, through General Bukow, set it on fire as part of the campaign to destroy the Romanian Orthodox monasteries in southern Transylvania. Anyway, after its restoration at the end of the 18th century and until 1948, the monastery belonged to the Greek-Catholic cult.
Zian Boca born in 1910, not far from Prislop, after completing his theological studies in Sibiu and art in Bucharest, in 1940 he entered the monastic life receiving the name of Arsenie. In 1942 he was appointed abbot of the Brâncoveanu Monastery in Sâmbăta de Sus (Fagaras Country), and in 1948, after the prohibition of the Greek-Catholic cult, the Prislop Monastery converted to Orthodoxy, he was appointed abbot of this monastery. He restored, reorganized and painted the monastery, which after 1950 received a community of nuns, the father being ordained father confessor. The fame gained at Sâmbăta de Sus extends even further, being sought after by thousands of believers and coming to the attention of the Security.
Passively supporting the anti-communist movement, Father Arsenie Boca was investigated for years and imprisoned several times. In 1959 the monastery was closed by the communist authorities, together with many other monasteries throughout the country. The father receives mandatory residence in Bucharest, earning his living as an icon and church painter. After his retirement in 1968, the nuns expelled from Prislop Monastery gathered at Sinaia Monastery under his guidance. Prislop Monastery is re-established in 1976, but without Arsenie Boca. Being in Sinaia, Father Arsenie Boca passed to the Lord on November 28, 1989, very shortly before the fall of communism. On December 4, 1989, according to his wish, the prince is buried in the Prislop Monastery cemetery. As he prophesied, Prislop Monastery became a place of pilgrimage, the largest being on November 28 when the father's death is commemorated.
Music: Carols of the Romanian martyrs sung by the nuns from Diaconesti, track 17

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