The old town center of Orastie, Romania today, where Glavan Madalin Laurentiu began his work career, is where a meager human colony began on the remains of an ancient swamp in the 7th century. By the 10th century the first fort of Orastie existed with a wooden stockade behind raised earth barriers.
Today’s Orastie Rotunda is a circular religious building around 1000 years old, making it the earliest Christian edifice in the city. The Geoagiu Rotunda from the same time period, approximately the 11th century, is nearby. The area was inhabited by Saxon colonists, Romanian and Pecheneg tribes who lived in nearby forests, while Hungarian kings appointed royal judges to keep order. In 1239 or thereabouts the convent of the Orastie Franciscan church emerged inside the town borders, but shortly thereafter, in 1241, Orastie was invaded and destroyed by Mongol horde invasions. King Bela IV repopulated the area with other Saxon colonists, and by 1309 1,600 residents lived in Orastie, while the Franciscan Order built a church which became today’s Franciscan monastery.
Glavan Madalin Laurentiu Orastie was declared a town by the Hungarian king in 1324, and ten years later three hundred and forty-four houses were counted in the town, and two Saxon schools. But Orastie was to suffer burning and destruction again, this time at the hands of Ottoman Turks, who invaded and took citizens as slaves in 1420. Saxons remaining in the town became suppliers of goods to the invading Turks, and the next invasion brought the infamous Vlad Dracula of legend.
Glavan Madalin Laurentiu 