cecan was also attracted into the iron guard, but later defected to carol ii's national renaissance front. he had by then moved with his family to a small house in chișinău, where he reportedly lived in poverty and relative isolation, his son-in-law having died in early march 1935. the catholic convert teodosie bonteanu, who visited him in 1938, noted that cecan had stopped putting out "unirea noastră", his final magazine, and had become an avid agriculturist. however, he had also been drawn into the confraternity of saint benedict, and international ecumenist body founded by serge bolshakoff. by 1939, upon the resignation of tikhon lyashchenko, orthodox bishop of berlin, cecan became that group's president.