tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post1999210855654355602..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: 'Numbered In the Choir of Holy Confessors'—Ss Iorest & Sava of TransylvaniaAaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-76501807985406939522009-05-09T12:56:00.000-05:002009-05-09T12:56:00.000-05:00Thank you for this comment. I admit that as little...Thank you for this comment. I admit that as little as I know about Wallachian history, I know even less about the history of Transylvania. This is quite interesting.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-39932961402001702152009-05-09T10:37:00.000-05:002009-05-09T10:37:00.000-05:00it is quite amazing how the Orthodox faith stayed ...it is quite amazing how the Orthodox faith stayed the majority faith in Transylvania, in spite of the persecution it suffered at the hands of both Catholics and Protestants, in spite of the Orthodox having almost no voice with the Hungarian or Habsburg authorities.<br />Although the Principality of Transylvania gets sometimes the praise of having been a very tolerant state in the 16th and the 17th centuries, because the Unitarian sect was given here the status of a "religio recepta" , it is highly ironic that such a tolerant state would only grant the insulting status of a"religio tolerata" to the majority religion, at the same time. But Unitarianism, Catholicism, Calvinism and Lutheranism were all Hungarian, German and Szekel religions, while the Orthodox religion was "Vlach", that is Romanian. <br />Not even Uniatism, although it fared far better tan all previous attempts at conversion, won, in the long run, a majority status among the Transylvanian peasantry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com