by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Romania
- Published: Wednesday, April 17 2013 05:24
In the middle of this series, its theme has made me return to my native city through the image above, which represents an artistic sun on a wall of the Saint Antim Church (an important historical monument in East Europe) and the irresistible real Sun.
Antim Ivireanul or Anthim the Iverian (1650-1716) was born in (European) Georgia and lived his years of maturity in the Romanian Land during the luminous times of the monarch Constantin Brancoveanu.
Here he became the state chief-typographer, Metropolitan, theologian, writer, philosopher, translator, engraver, woodcarver, amateur astronomer and even proto-astro-artist (his emblem being a starry snail) before being killed by an Ottoman conspiraacy.
Antim Ivireanul’s main writings, “Didahiile” (the Sermons), include many paragraphs which are veritable prose poems dedicated to the Cosmos and especially to the Sun.
I’ve chosen only a short excerpt:
“The Sun lightens the day, it’s the sign of gift.”
It is interesting that, in his memory, since 2002 Romania and Georgia annually contest the Antim Cup rugby match.
Here is a sequence from the last edition, also the final of the European Nations Cup (score 9-9), which I took in 16 March 2013 at the (Romanian) National Rugby Stadium.
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