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The Thousand-Year Spiritual Tradition Of Lesnovo Monastery In Macedonia, Ilija Velev
The Thousand-Year Spiritual Tradition Of Lesnovo Monastery In Macedonia, Ilija Velev
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Through the rich Christian tradition in Macedonia from the early Christian, medieval and up to the modern period numerous churches and monasteries were built, where all forms of development of spiritual and cultural life took place. A historically remarkable location is Lesnovo Monastery, which has survived until today during almost one thousand years of spiritual and cultural tradition in Macedonia. The oldest indirect and legendary sources point to the conclusion that the original construction of the monastic church in Lesnovo should be moved to the period of the eleventh century, when from 1018 onwards, after the fall of Samuil's Slavic …