Saturday, September 26, marks 11 years since Voivode Neagoe Basarab was passed among the saints by the Romanian Orthodox Church. This moment coincided with the bringing of the relics of Saint Niphon to the Metropolitan Church of Târgoviște.

The two events had a strong symbolic charge, because St. Hierarch Nifon was the first saint canonized on the territory of our country (on August 16, 1517, in the time of Neagoe, at the consecration of the Argeș Monastery). In addition, St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople and Metropolitan of Wallachia, shepherded the flock of Christ from Targoviste and was the spiritual guide of St. Neagoe Basarab.