Subiect: „The tumultuous past of the Catholic Bulgarians living from three centuries nearly in
the Banat, around Bucharest, and in Bulgaria of today knew certain tragic moments in the course of time, as the uprising of Chiprovtsi that quashed down by Ottomans, 1688, that population exodus to the north of the Danube, toward Walachia, and the privileges they were given by Constantin Brâncoveanu, but also their migration to Transylvania and colonizing in the Banat of the enlightened monarchs of Vienna. Skilful merchants, farmers and cowmen, they had ecclesiastic Roman Catholic institutions that deeply influenced their life: bishoprics of Nikopol and Sardica (Sofia), but also the Bulgarian monastic province of the observant Franciscans “the Immaculate Conception”. From those monks the energetic figure of Nikola Stanislavich rose; he was born in Craiova, in 1694, became bishop of Nikopol
and after of Cenad, which residence was in Timişoara. Educated in Rome, appointed as a bishop through the instrumentality of the dicasteries of Rome and the monarchs of Vienna, he irreversibly marked the Paulician Bulgarians fascinating history”
