Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Saint Sofian (Boghiu) of Antim Monastery, the gentle elder of Bucharest, reflects on the lessons learned from the communist persecution and explains that Christianity is not a theory but a life to be lived with profundity and sincerity.
The local proclamation of the canonisation of Saint Sofian took place on September 16, 2025 at Antim Monastery, Bucharest, Romania. A renowned spiritual father and iconographer, Saint Sofian was a confessor who endured 16 years of hard labor in communist prisons for his faith and his involvement in the "Burning Bush" spiritual movement.

This is an interview recorded in 2001 at Antim Monastery, Bucharest, Romania.
Watch the full interview on Ortodoxia inimii channel: youtube.com/watch?v=zxmuT32DHMM

Read the English transcript of this video here: otelders.org/special-moments/god-is-with-us-but-we-must-also-be-with-him-saint-sofian-of-antim

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