Emanuil Gojdu, when he said that after life he will
serve the nation even under the ground, he didn't say a metaphor, because,
after he died in 1870,
he left through will his fortune to form a Foundation.This foundation,
by
a good administration, became in time the greatest foundation in the
Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy, according to Mrs. Maria Berenyi, the historical
scientist of this
foundation.
To understand the proportions of the foundation and its purpose, it is
enough to know that
according to the will of the great doer of good, the Romanians from the Empire
received scholarships in the great European univesity centers, as it follows:
| Period |
Number of scholarships |
Help for students |
Student scholarships |
| 1870 - 1900 |
1492 |
358 |
455 |
| 1901 - 1918 |
1835 |
570 |
673 |
After 1918, in the same time with the Unification of Transilvania with
Romania,
the Gojdu Foundation remained in exclusivity in Hungary. Although
according to the Peace treat from Trianon, Hungary has been obliged to
restitute the foundation (90% from the benefits had to be given to the
orthodox Romanians from Romania, 6% to those from Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
and 4% to those from Hungary), the Hungarian officials have strategically
delayed
the protocol of restitution, the Hungarian Parliament ratifying just at the
20th of June 1940,
for that on the 30th of August the same year, the Dictate from Viena to anulate
his effect,
occupying a great part of Transilvania. In 1952, the foundation has been
introduced with
its entire estate, by nationalizing, in the patrimony of the Hungarian state.
That state obviously didn't ever feel the desire, in these 50 years, to
care for the monument
of Gojdu from the Kerepesi cementery of Budapest. Even the Romanian comunity
didn't care about
it very much, the Romanian orthodox Vicarage of Gyula has obtained as we know,
from the Hungarian
state a ransom as part of the Gojdu Foudation, a summ of 30-40 bilion forints.
The summ which has
been integrally invested in the upgrading of the vicarage, of the main building
and its red marble
coverage and the employees' buildings, and not a forint to restore the grave of
the great man,
of whose the money were in fact; otherwise, neither for the renovation of
the great Orthodox Romanian Church situated near the orthodox vicarage of
Gyula. Neither the
Romanian state nor the Romanian orthodox bishoprics, of whose faithful and
giving servant was
Gojdu in his life and after, didn't invest any money for the restoration of his
grave.
Article taken from "Crisana" newspaper
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