Innocent Hatis of Robaia

Inochentie Hățiș, born in 1901 at Șutești, in Vâlcea, was a protosyncellus and confessor of the nuns' Robaia Monastery in Argeș from 1955 until his death. He fell asleep on 14 October 1997. He is named in the Romanian Paterikon and venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.

He was the son of humble, devout parents. In 1929 he entered monastic life at Bistrița Monastery in Vâlcea and was tonsured in 1931. He was ordained deacon, and in 1941 hieromonk and sent as missionary priest in Transylvania. Between 1947 and 1955 he was priest and confessor at his monastery of vows, Bistrița, turned into a nuns' monastery, and from 1955 confessor at Robaia, where he struggled to the end.

His greatest sacrifice, from the moment of ordination to death, was celebrating the Liturgy almost daily, for more than sixty years. He was very humble, gentle, a lover of work, peacemaker with all and always at peace with himself, with people and with God. He contributed much to Robaia's spiritual and material renewal: he built cells, worked in the garden, heard believers' confessions. He often said: rather than sit idle, better to work in vain. The Paterikon says his life was like an unbroken liturgy, in which he did everything with peace, humility and joy.

After a short illness he passed to the rest above on 14 October 1997.