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He was some kind of Christian. IDK why he bothered to say anything about it. He was forever torturing people. IDK why he cared what religion people thought he believed.

@ James, he impaled those people while they were alive and some of the people he TORTURED to death were the poor and his political enemies...not necessarily criminals (research)

he was sold into captivity by his father at a relatively young age and mistreated-he had issues, on top of just being born mentally disturbed

Vlad Tepes, the inspiration for Dracula, was an Orthodox Christian and the ruler of Wallachia for some years during the 15th century. ("Romania" didn't come into existence until the 19th century, when Wallachia united with Moldavia to form the country we now call Romania.)

Before 1054 A.D., the Catholic and Orthodox church were united as a single body, but a schism in that year caused them to split into two distinct church bodies. Since Wallachia fell on the Orthodox side of the divide because it had received its Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, Vlad was a Wallachian Orthodox Christian. The Wallachian Orthodox Church at the time may have fallen under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, but I'm not sure about that.

Of course he was EOC, without support of the church and the neighboring states, he and his 14,000 man army kept 150,000 Turks from attacking Hungary for what 15 years, and even then Hungary had not prepared itself for the invasion. He say the Turks for what they were, having been a prisoner at 9, and seeing his 11 year old brother take the sexual abuse so he did not have to, he knew them far too well.

You mean Vladracula, or Vlad the Impaler.

No. He was an Orthodox Christian.

He hated Roman Catholics as well as Muslims, mostly because he had been imprisoned and mistreated by Muslims, and because his family "sold out" by becoming Roman Catholic.

He also wasn't as bad of a guy as he is often portrayed. He never murdered anyone except soldiers in war and criminals. He ran a tight knit TINY kingdom surrounded by more powerful enemies and he had to resort to some terror tactics to protect his people.

What's worse? Impaling some dead bodies and POWs or allowing the Ottoman Empire to come on in and sexually enslave the Christian women, abduct Christian boys for the Jannisaries, and overtax the place while desecrating the Churches like they did in the rest of their empire?

Most of the impaled people were merely Ottoman soldiers, oftentimes they were often even dead before being impaled. It was more psychological warfare against the enemy than physical.

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@strpenta: Which sources are you deriving your information about Vlad's life from? You need to take into account that Vlad was really screwed over in the long run by the West. He was scapegoated by the West in order to take away attention from their laziness and obstinance to deal with the Ottoman threat. Hence Hungarian, British, and other Western sources portray him negatively and exaggerate these myths about him killing the poor and innocent. Russian, Romanian, and other Eastern sources however describe him as a just and fair leader who only impaled and punished criminals and soldiers. Even today in Romania, many people view him in a positive light.

Oddly enough...

Lugosi was buried wearing one of the Dracula Cape costumes, per the request of his son and fifth wife, in

the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City,

California.

Contrary to popular belief, Lugosi never requested to be buried in his cloak; Bela G. Lugosi confirmed on numerous occasions that he and his mother, Lillian, actually made the decision but believed that it is what his father would have wanted.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi

We'd have a real problem if he was Jewish Italian. Crosses and garlic would not have an effect.

At that place and time probably Orthodox.

Romainian Orthodox, I would think.

probably!

they are all that way down there.