 At the time, he adopted Constantin Chiricescu, an orphan student from Topești, who later became head of the church printing press.His work as a principal also led him to write and publish the typikon for aspiring priests (1878; second edition 1897) and an 1885 dissertation on monasticism, "Monahii sunt gloria Bisericei lui Hristos" ("Monks are the Glory of Christ's Church").In that context, he also began his work as anti-Catholic polemicist, translating "La papauté hérétique" by Wladimir Guettée (1885).