Sandu Tudor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian writer and academic
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Place of Birth: Bucharest
About Sandu Tudor
- Sandu Tudor (Romanian pronunciation: ['sandu 'tudor]; born Alexandru Al.
- Teodorescu, known in church records as Brother Agathon, later Daniil Teodorescu, Daniil Sandu Tudor, Daniil de la Rarau; December 22 or December 24, 1896 – November 17, 1962) was a Romanian poet, journalist, theologian and Orthodox monk.
- Having had an adventurous youth, he first became known in the late 1920s, when he contributed to the modern Orthodox revival, rallying with the journal Gândirea.
- Although a traditionalist and a critic of materialism, he was closely associated with the modernist scene, and generally supported left-wing causes.
- Tudor was also a scandal-prone journalist and newspaper owner, who faced accusations of slander and was avoided by his peers. From 1927, when he wrote his first akathist, Tudor made overtures toward Orthodox monasticism.
- Demanding universal penance, seeking to revive medieval hesychasm, he joined other mystics and writers in creating the "Burning Pyre" religious movement, and took orders in 1948.
- He was soon branded an enemy of the Romanian communist regime, and twice arrested for supposed political crimes.
- Tudor died at Aiud prison, a victim of torture and criminal neglect.
- His body was never recovered. Sandu Tudor is generally considered an unaccomplished writer, although his fusion of modernism and traditionalism has drawn critical interest.
- He enjoys a sizable following in the field of Orthodox theology, and, after the fall of communism, has been considered for canonization.
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