The personality of Metropolitan Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania has been extremely complex, first of all due to the various domains of his work – literature, essays, art history, theology and biblical theology –, and secondly due to his relation to politics, especially with the Legionary Movement and with Communism. Despite having been incarcerated as a political prisoner in some of Bolshevik Romania’s famous prisons (Jilava, Pitești, Aiud), Bartolomeu