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with the majority of fellow signatories. While there, he wrote a brochure detailing his political convictions. He was granted a furlough in order to bury his son. The court costs were considerable for
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in order to deepen his studies of philosophy and political economy, his 1861–1863 stay of two years was too brief for a doctorate, and
Cristea remained with two undergraduate degrees in theology and law. While in Leipzig, he was a church singer at the local Romanian chapel. He also corrected some
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businessman, and was ordained a priest later that year. Teaching church history and canon law, he was a substitute professor at the theological academy from 1863 to 1865 and a full professor of homiletics and moral theology from 1870 to 1873. At that point, he was named an archdiocesan advisor,
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Begun in prison in March 1895, this diary was kept until
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effort, Cristea consistently defended the rights of the province's
Romanians. Like his mentor, he promoted an activist stance through polemical articles, and the widely read newspaper turned a profit for the first time. In 1877–1878, he paid close attention to the ongoing
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newspaper was founded in 1884, he occasionally contributed articles there. He took part in the 1881 national conference of
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Romanian at their trial, held in May 1894. Cristea defended himself energetically, refusing to disavow his role. He was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, which he carried out at
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