''Cazania lui Varlaam'' (''the Homiliary of Varlaam'') also known as ''Carte Românească de Învăţătură'' (''the Romanian Book of Learning'') is a book edited by the

Metropolitan of Moldavia The Metropolis of Moldavia and Bucovina, in Iași, Romania, is a metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. History The Metropolis of Moldavia was set up in 1386, and recognized in 1401, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It ...

Varlaam Moţoc in 1643.

History

In 1643, the Moldavian Prince

Vasile Lupu Lupu Coci, known as Vasile Lupu (; 1595–1661), was a Voivode of Moldavia of Albanian origin between 1634 and 1653. Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years. Va ...

sponsored

the Books of Homilies ''The Books of Homilies'' (1547, 1562, and 1571) are two books together containing thirty-three sermons developing the authorized reformed doctrines of the Church of England in depth and detail, as appointed for use in the 35th Article of the Thi ...

translated by

Varlaam from Slavonic into Romanian (''pre limba Romeniască'') and titled ''Carte Românească de Învăţătură'' (Romanian Book of Learning) . The foreword by Prince Lupu says that it is addressed to the entire Romanian nation everywhere (''la toată semenția românească de pretutindeni''). The book, also known as ''Cazania lui Varlaam'' ("The Cazania of Varlaam" or "Varlaam's Homiliary"), was the very first printed in Moldavia and large numbers of copies spread in the neighboring provinces inhabited by Romanian speakers.The Romanian Literature Museum in Iaşi
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Gallery

File:Stamp of Moldova 177.gif, Varlaam Moţoc

References

*Mureșanu, Florea. ''Cazania lui Varlaam, 1643 - 1943: Prezentare in imagini'' (1944). *Dudaș, Florian. ''Cazania lui Varlaam în Transilvania: studiu istoric și bibliologic'' (2005).

External links

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''Cazania Lui Barlaam: 1643-1943''
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