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The Monastery’s Saints – Introduction Georgios Martzelos 29 October 2011 In a monastery such as Vatopaidi, with so rich a history and spiritual tradition, the saints who have lived and been active in it give us a striking picture not only of its history, but also of its sp...
The Skete of Fataciuni in the Prefecture of Tutova Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 According to sources from the middle of the 17th century, an old church of the Dormition of the Theotokos is reported to have existed in this locality. It was burned down by the Tatars in 1711 and rem...
The Monastery of Rachitoasa in the Prefecture of Bacau Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 In 1677 the Great Kloutsiaris Enake built a small wooden church in the region of St Parasceva, which later became the cemetery church. In 1697 the son of the Kloutsiaris, the Great Spatharis Ilias En...
The Skete of Provitsa in the Prefecture of Prachova Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This skete was erected in the 17th century (before 1649) by the priest-monk Germanos27. In 1704 it was already a metochi of Vatopaidi28. It was rebuilt in 1834-1835 as the church of the village of Upp...
The Monastery of Precista at Foxani Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This monastery was erected by the Voivode Nikolaos Mavrocordatos, as is recorded in the inscription which is preserved in the vestibule, during the period of his rule in Moldavia (1709-1715), and it w...
The Monastery of Precista at Galatsi Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 The Monastery of Precista at Galatsi was built on the foundations of an old church dedicated to the Virgin and built before 1641 of wood and bricks. Its founder was the Galatsi merchant Theodore, who ...
The Monastery of Our Lady at Orasul de Floci Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 This monastery was built before 1630, since documents in the Romanian archive inform us that it was a metochi of the Monastery of Vatopaidi23. For the present, these documents constitute the only cert...
The Monastery of Myra (Mira or Miera or Mera) in the Prefecture of Vrantsia Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 The monastery began to be built in wood towards the end of the 1682 or early in 1683 by Nikiphoros Motzok, a resident of the village of Odombesti, and his wife Ursa, with the assistance of the Bishop ...
The Monastery of Barboiu in Jassy Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 Built at the beginning of the 17th century by the Great Vornik Ursu Barboi, it was dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In 1669 the descendants of the vornik, of the Sturza family, turned it...
The Skete of Crainici or Crasnitta or Cranita or Lespezi in the Prefecture of Tekuci Florin Marinescu 29 October 2011 The founder of this skete was Ilias Katartziou18. Before 1749 the skete was dedicated to the Myra Monastery. In that year, seeing that the monastery was in a state of decline, the Pacharnik Constantin...
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