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| Fr. Constantine Virgil Gheorgiou |
Virgil Gheorghiu (1916-1992) was a well-known Romanian writer, who is best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour.
Gheorghiu was ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in
Paris on May 23, 1963. In 1966, Patriarch Justinian awarded him the
cross of the Romanian Patriarchate for his liturgical and literary
activities. The 25th Hour was made into a movie starring Anthony Quinn in 1967. In 1968 Fr. Virgil wrote Why Was I Called Virgil?, in which he tells us only the beginning of the story below. In 1986 he published his Memoirs, in which the whole story was written.
