The Church and „The Transylvanian Association”
The 150th anniversary of the “Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and Culture of the Romanian people”(ASTRA) urges us to put light on some aspects regarding the contribution of the Romanian Church in Transylvania to its creation, but also to its prosperity. The involvement of the Church in the activity of ASTRA was only natural, being a continuation of the multiple role met by the Church in Transylvania not only in the spiritual life of the nation, but also and especially in the cultural and national-political one, in a time when Romanians in the intra-Carpathian territories did not have their own statal organization, as their brethren across the Carpathians did.
Keywords: Romanian history, XIXth century, Transylvania, ASTRA Association, Romanian Church in Transylvania, Andrei Şaguna