Dragović monastery
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The Dragović monastery (
During its history, the Dragović monastery was destroyed three times. Today, it belongs to the Eparchy of Dalmatia of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and as such is one of the three spiritual centers of the Serbs of Dalmatia, alongside the Krka monastery and the Krupa monastery.
According to the chronicle "History of the Holy Nativity Monastery Dragović in the Orthodox Diocese of Dalmatia", written by the archimandrite Gerasim Petranović in 1859, the monastery was named after Drago, who moved with his brothers from
History
According to official Serb Orthodox schematism published until late 19th century there is no known historical information about the foundation.[1] According to a baseless folk story by Orthodox clergy which can be traced to 1811, but mainly invented and promoted by Nikodim Milaš in his Pravoslavna Dalmacija (1901), the Dragović Monastery was built in 1395, six years after the Battle of Kosovo, and after the death of Bosnian King Tvrtko, when supposedly Serbs from Bosnia moved en masse to Dalmatia, where they built this monastery.[2][1] Some other unsourced historical accounts about the monastery are also his invention.[1] There was no institutional (Serb) Orthodoxy in the 1468/69 Bosnia,[3] Orthodoxy spread in Bosnia only with the Ottoman advance, and in the mid-15th century it was present only in Eastern and Southeastern parts of Bosnian-Serbian border.[4]
Archaeologically the late medieval layer still is not confirmed, in the sources cannot be confirmed existence of a Catholic church on the site, and non-Orthodox elements found in the monastery possibly were introduced from nearby medieval Catholic church from Gornje Koljane.[1] Based on reliable historical sources the monastery was possibly founded before the restoration of Serbian Patriarchate of Peć in 1557, and most probably by the end of the 16th century, but it would become desolate for a long time.[1] In the late 17th century (1694), Orthodox bishop Nikodim Busović was given by Venetian authorities permission to rebuild the abandoned monastery, antica chiesa et monastero habitato da calogeri, by which was officially founded the Orthodox hierarchy and custom, but the monastery had a complex relationship to both Catholic and Orthodox authorities.[1][5] Amid bad relations with Greek Catholics in Šibenik and Roman Catholic hierarchy, Busović in the end retreated from the position of bishop and died at the monastery.[1][5][6]
The grounds on which Dragović rested were highly unstable and this, together with increasing moisture, convinced the monks to move the monastery to a better location.[citation needed] With Venetian permission, in 1777 hieromonk Vikentije Stojisavljević began to build the new monastery in the Vinogradi. The monastery's reconstruction was very long and financially exhausting until prior Jerotej Kovačević finally supervised its completion. It eventually opened on 20 August 1867.[citation needed]
Recent history
In 1959, when the artificial lake for the
Between 1991 and 1993, during the
In this way, the tradition of the gathering of Orthodox in this monastery has been established again. This assembly occurs every year on Sunday before the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos.[citation needed]
Treasury
Monastery Dragović used to have a rich treasury, in which was kept a number of manuscripts from 16th-18th centuries, as well as very old books written in
There were also very rare
In the monastery's church, a part of Saint Gregory's
Gallery
See also
- List of Serb Orthodox Monasteries
- Serbs of Croatia
References
- ^ ISBN 978-953-7611-65-1.
- ^ Ratko Jelić (1971), Almanah: Srbi i pravoslavlje u Dalmaciji i Dubrovniku, Savez udruženja pravoslavnog sveštenstva SR Hrvatske, p. 12
Срби, досељени из Босне, саградили су на Цетини манастир Драговић (1395).
- ^ Kadić, Edib (11 May 2017). "Mit i dalje uzurpira mjesto znanstvenoj istini (interview with dr. Fazileta Hafizović)". STAV. Sarajevo.
Politika ne mari za to što u prvom osmanskom popisu Bosne iz 1468/69. godine nije bilo institucionalnog pravoslavlja...
- ^ Agić, Jasmin (8 October 2017). "Bešlija: S Osmanlijama počinje širenje islama i pravoslavlja u Bosni (interview with dr. Sedad Bešlija)". Al Jazeera Balkans.
Uporedo sa širenjem islama u Bosni dogodio se i razvoj pravoslavlja. I to mnogo više nego katoličanstva zbog činjenice da je vladao trajni vojni i politički sukob između Porte i Papinske države. Dakle, što se tiče pravoslavlja (i pravoslavne crkve u Bosni), dolaskom Osmanlija (polovinom 15. stoljeća) ono je bilo zastupljeno samo u nekim krajnjim istočnim i jugoistočnim dijelovima Bosne koji su došli u sastav srednjovjekovne bosanske kraljevine za doba kralja Tvrtka I Kotromanića. Kako su ostali dijelovi Bosne potpadali pod osmansku vlast, tako se širio i pravoslavni element u Bosni. To je historijska činjenica.
- ^ a b Markovina, Dragan (2011). "Bukovica u mletačkoj demografskoj i vjerskoj politici 18. stoljeća". Godišnjak Titius: Godišnjak za interdisciplinarna istraživanja porječja Krke. 4 (4). Split: 102.
- ^ Rajčić, Tihomir (2003). "Pregled uloge Srpske pravoslavne crkve u nastanku i razvoju srpskog nacionalnog pokreta u austrijskoj Dalmaciji". Croatica Christiana Periodica. 27 (51): 105.
- ^ "Dalmatinska eparhija". spc.rs. Serbian Orthodox Church. Archived from the original on 2009-12-09. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
- ^ "Manastir Dragović". eparhija-dalmatinska.hr. Eparchy of Dalmatia.
