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Education is essential to the survival of any social group, since a community secures its continued existence and development only through the transmission of its accumulated knowledge, derived power, and ideological aims to the next generation. Education may be simply (and brief) defined as the process of teaching and learning, the imparting and acquisition of knowledge and skills. The need for education was no less true for the students included in „The Burning Altar” movement, who regularly attended Antim at th...

The paper, as the title has announced, proposes a discussion about the religious dimension of Education provided by Father Ivan Kulîghin, major personality. Attempts of his biography to have been reconstituted caused, in time, various controversies. Monk Ivan Kulîghin was born on the 24th of February to Elet (Orel) in Russia. He belonged to one of the greatest spiritual Russian centers, Valaamo Monastery, which after the communism’s installation, had been savagely destroyed by the Soviets. So, the Russian monk had...