Oameni de ieri și de azi (3) Ilie Telescu, veritabil român, inimos dascăl și preot curajos
Abstract: Ilie Telescu was born in Bocșa Montană (Caraș-Severin County) in 1839, to a family of Romanian Greek-Catholic miners. He attended the primary school in Bocșa, then the secondary school and the Greek-Catholic Teacher’s Training School in Oradea and became a teacher.
Between 1860 and 1863, he studied Greek-Catholic theology in Oradea.
In 1868, he was transferred to the Greek-Catholic parish in Cenad, where he was a teacher and a priest.
Ilie Telescu was a complex personality, a patriot who loved peace and unity. In 1875, he and 801 people turned to Orthodoxy, reactivating the old Romanian Orthodox parish in Cenad. He was actively involved in the cultural life of the locality, where he set up a reading society.