Cartea în limba latină din biblioteca preotului Gheorghe Armașu [Articol]

Abstract

Gheorghe Armașu (1914-1991) was a priest with special spiritual qualities, a true intellectual of the 20th century, a patriot and a priest appreciated by the communities in which he served. He was born on January 25, 1914 in the village of Domulgeni, Soroca county in a peasant family. He studied in the local school and had secondary education. In 1929 he entered the Theological Seminary in Chisinau, which he graduated in 1937, after which he entered the Theological Academy in Chernivtsi, but due to the poor material situation, he abandoned his studies. He first worked as a psalmist in the village of Bălcăuții de jos, Cernăuți region, then as a priest in the villages of Vetreanca, Moșana, Plop, Petreni. He had a special passion for old books. He collected several libraries, which the Soviet regime confiscated. His last library composed of over 700 books was saved by Ioan Vasile Nicorici, a professor at “Alecu Ruso” Bălți University, and is currently stored in the library of this institution. The books are in different languages. In Gheorghe Armașu’s library there are 67 theological, historical, didactic books and a Latin-Romanian dictionary. The books were mostly bought in Chernivtsi. Only three books belonged to the priest Gheorghe Armașu from December 1939, when he was in the village of Vetreanca (Hotin county). Others were mostly purchased in the city of Chernivtsi during 1973-1984. His passion for old books made him a savior of them, threatened to be destroyed, after the communist regime closed most of the cultural institutions in the annexed Romanian territories.