miercuri, 12 august 2009

The origins doesn't lie


A confession about myself?!

All my life I've had a problem about my origins.
My folks are from a village called "Nicolae Balcescu", old name "Ferdinand", with older origins in the village "The Dry Valey" or "Bogdanfalva"(hungarian), perfect place for making wine. It's placed near the city Bacau, Bako(in hungarian),and in that area it's living a comunity of ceangai, maybe older than the roumanian voievodals.
The ceangai are an dying comunity, placed from Falticeni city, with the old Moldavian capital city Baia from XIII century, with an gotic church that has the gravery of Ms. Margaret(grandmother of Dragos), until near Adjud or maybe Focsani city. They speak one old version of hungarian(XVII century version) mixed very much with roumanian.
They call themself roumanian citizens, with confession Romano-Chatolic. Strange thing, because in the history of this isolated comunity they were always blamed by the roumanians as "hungarians" or "boszgor"(homeless), but they always were brave people, with clear identity declared.
The documents about their origins are very vague and are concentrated on three theories:
- an different faction from the Huns migrators, they were established on the oriental part of Charpatians mountains, to protect the oriental part of the Hungarian Empire, and isolated there. Facts: the language spoke,
- roumanian Romano-Chatolics from Transylvania, migrated in Moldavia in the XIV century, Facts: the transilvanian traditions
- Cumans or Pecenges migrators established in those areas where they live even now, converted to christians Romano-Chatolic by the hungarians in the centuries X or XI. There are hystorical proofs of christianity Romano-Chatolic in Bacau from XI, or XII century(from my point the most credible version)Facts: Peoples related only to the religion, the same is the life style, personality and way of seeing the world, different by the hungarians, different by the romanians.
As an descendent from this comunity I've observed better the comunity and I have a great respect for it and her faith. Why? Because the faith always makes the peoples stronger, as these people are. I've learned from them, how to relate everything to God, to Jesus, to Hole Mary, to Anton Saint, to Saint Francisc and to live my life related everytime to my religion.
My relation with them and with the other peoples from Bacau, my home town, was distantly, but consistent. I've been from litlle child called Catholic, as a nickname in the neighborhood, but also different from my relatives from Nicolae Balcescu.
I consider myself a Romano-Chatolic person, with hometown Bacau, from the comunity of ceangai, romanian citizen and I feel proud of my origins:)

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