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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20CATHOLICA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   L’EVEQUE IULIU HOSSU ET NICULA : DU MĂNĂSTIRE AU MONASTERE (1936) / BISHOP IULIU HOSSU AND NICULA: FROM THE “MĂNĂSTIRE” TO THE MONASTERY (1936).

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  Abstract:  If Nicula monastery in the centre of Transylvania is nowadays a very famous pilgrimage place in Romania, it is probably in a great part due to the efforts of the leader of the Greek-catholic eparchy of Cluj-Gherla during the interwar-period, bishop Iuliu Hossu. Having a great affection for the “mănăstiri”, the ancient rural pilgrimage places, he participated personally to their pilgrimages, he succeeded to increase the number of the pilgrims, he attended to their embellishment and planned to establish monasteries on their sites. Therefore, in 1936, by the decree 140/1936 given on February 25, he handed the “Mănăstire Nicula”, the parish and the “mănăstire"’s administration over to the Romanian Basilian monks. The Romanian region of the Basilian Order had financial difficulties and wanted to obtain the site as to assure the subsistence of their schools and consequentially the future of the Romanian Basilians. They maintained their decision even when bishop Iuliu Hossu imposed very strict conditions in regard to the “mănăstire"’s exploitation and the use of its outcomes. Finally, they overtook the “mănăstire” on the 22 august 1936 and kept it till 1948, when the liquidation of the Greek-catholic church was decided by communist decree.

Keywords: Bixad (monastery), Cluj-Gherla (Greek-catholic eparchy of), Iuliu Hossu, S. Keresztes (Keresteş), Leon Manu (Man), Atanasie Maxim, Maria Mare (pilgrimage on august 15), Nicula (iconostasis, monastery, village), Order of Saint Basil the Great, Augustin Pop, 1936
 
         
     
         
         
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