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<\/a>Source: Mystagogy<\/a><\/p>\nEug\u00e8ne Ionesco<\/a> (26 November 1909 \u2013 28 March 1994) was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd<\/a>. <\/p>\n In an interview with French magazine Paris-Match<\/em>, Eugene Ionesco mentions the following experience he had on Mount Athos:<\/p>\n I was born in an Orthodox family and I lived in Paris. At twenty-five years, I was a genuine young man of the secular culture of the then Paris. I got the idea to visit Mount Athos because of its position as – and indeed was – a place of asceticism in the Orthodox Church. And there I had another thought in mind: to confess. So I went and found a hieromonk, a spiritual father. What did I say to him? The usual sins of a secular young man who lives without knowing God. The hieromonk, after hearing me, said:<\/em><\/p>\n Do you believe in Christ my child?<\/p>\n Yes, yes, I believe Father. Besides, I am baptized Orthodox Christian.<\/p>\n Well, my child, do you believe and accept fully that Christ is God and Creator of the world and us?<\/p>\n I lost it, because this was the first time a person put forward this question to me, and which I had to answer honestly and take a position. Not just if I believe someone made the world, but that this God, the Creator of the world, has to do with me. And that I have a personal relationship with him! I replied:<\/p>\n Father, I believe, but help me understand this fact well.<\/p>\n If you really believe, then all corrects itself.<\/p>\n This incident caused the shift of Ionesco’s life, who up to deep old age and being famous, lived as a pious and deeply faithful Orthodox Christian.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Interviews with Ionesco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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