“this first Orthodox university in the country will serve as a platform for enlightening the world with the light of Eastern theology and as a reliable bridge for dialogue between Churches and cultures

“Let us therefore contemplate the lives and conduct of all these saints and, as St John of Damascus exhorts us, let us imitate their faith, love, hope, zeal, life, steadfastness in suffering and endurance unto blood, so that we too may share with them in the crowns of glory

“It is precisely this putting on of incorruption and immortality that our Venerable Father John Jacob proclaims and demonstrates through his body

“The Lord accomplished wondrous things in the Venerable John through His love, making him wonderful in virtue, is manifested most clearly in his holy, fragrant and incorrupt relics, which lie before our eyes

“an offspring of Romania