With the blessing of His Eminence Calinic, Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți, the “Stephen the Great” Research and Documentation Center of the Putna Monastery organized, between September 3 and 6, 2025, the 32nd edition of the “Putna Colloquia” International History Symposium. The event was attended by researchers from Iași, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Kyiv, Kishnev, Sofia, and 15 History students from the Iași and Cluj-Napoca universities, who participated in the “History, Patrimony and Research” Camp organized by the Putna Monastery.

The three-day colloquia included presentations and discussions on various topics related to the history of Moldavia during Stephen the Great’s reign, such as: Stephen the Great’s funeral policy and the monasteries of his time; Stephen the Great’s “martyrs” and the collective memory function of the church he built at Războieni; King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary’s military campaign in Moldavia; the Moldavian-Polish relations in the second half of the 15th century; salvoconductos granted by Stephen the Great to Logothete Mikhail (Mihul), in order to bring into the country the man who had gone first to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire; some manuscripts considered by researchers to belong to Stephen the Great’s era, even though they had their dedicatory inscriptions forged later in Russia; other various aspects of medieval history, such as information on a potter monk of the Bistrița Monastery, extracted from the rich ceramic material recovered through archaeological research; Ștefan Lăcustă’s descent in the context of the Moldavian-Ottoman relations; the diplomatic role played by Venetian nobleman Polo Minio; episodes from the life of the Humor Monastery reconstituted on the basis of Archim. Vartolomei Mazereanu’s register; spiritual and cultural contributions made by Holy Hierarch Peter Mogila to the Orthodox revival of Kyiv in the 17th century.

During the colloquia, papers were also presented on the history of art (textiles covering the bases of the tombs of the princes of Moldavia buried at the Bogdana Monastery; wooden crosses with iconography inspired by the Sinaitic tradition, discovered in museums in Kyiv, Pernik (Bulgaria), Moscow, and at the Dragomirna Monastery; movable property from the Dragomirna Monastery attributed to Archim. Vartolomei Mazereanu; the discovery in Greece of cuffs adorned with the portraits of Stephen the Great and his wife, Maria Voichița; musical instruments in church painting at Lujeni; painter Gheorghe, author of the icons of the Putna Monastery church iconostasis and author of other icons from the patrimony of various museums; hagiographic sources of the series dedicated to the “Life and Miracles of Holy Hierarch Nicholas of Myra in Lycia” in the mural painting of the 15-16th century Moldavia; a medal dedicated to the 55-year jubilee of the First Celebration of Romanians from All Over the World, organized at the Putna Monastery by the Arboroasa Society in Chernivtsi; aspects of history of the Putna Monastery noted in some monastic registers during the Austrian occupation (1826/1827−1857), in documents on Archim. Isaia Baloșescu (1805–1808) from the monastery archive, and vol. IV of the Putna Commandment Protocol (1828–1835).

The event also included book history presentations: early church Slavic translations (of Thomas à Kempis’ theological treatise De Imitatione Christi); the story and contents of some liturgical books from the Patrimony of the Solca Monastery, and the graphic art in five books printed at the Rădăuți printing shop.