Separate the record from the revelation
When Diana opens the Tânganu enquiry, she deliberately keeps two records apart. One contains the extraordinary experience that has driven the investigation. The other contains only questions the ordinary historical record can test: the association with Radu cel Frumos, ecclesiastical continuity, surviving objects, later references and the dynastic trail through Maria Voichița.
That separation is methodological rather than merely bureaucratic. The characters may have experienced something persuasive, but they refuse to use private revelation as proof of a public historical claim. The archival question must be allowed to stand on its own legs.
A foundation with surviving traces
Later research in the saga places the monastery’s construction phase between 1462 and 1470. A reconstructed foundation inscription is presented as bearing the date 2 February 1464 and the name Radul, while the village parish history is shown naming Radu cel Frumos directly as the founder. The old monastic church bears the dedication Stretenia, the Meeting of the Lord.
The later village church is treated as a different sacred building rather than a renamed continuation. In the saga it is identified as Adormirea Maicii Domnului, built in 1853 after the older monastery church had fallen into ruin.
Continuity survives in fragments
The historical thread is not presented as one perfect chain. A seventeenth-century visit by Paul of Aleppo and Patriarch Macarios III is used to show the monastery still functioning in 1657, with worship, hospitality and commemoration of founders. Two years later, the saga records the monastery being burnt in the Tatar raid of 1659.
Centuries later, continuity survives in smaller things: parish memory, icons and objects associated with the older foundation, Cyrillic liturgical books, a cemetery, and a community that still knows whose monastery once stood on the site. The point is not that every gap disappears. It is that history can persist through several imperfect carriers at once.