Dear friends,
We inform you that recently we published on our website the English version of the volume “Bigorski Monastery. 20 Years Jubilee of Revived Monasticism” – a large work in which you can read more about the Monastery, its history, the revival, the monastic fraternity and its mission, the monasticism itself, the worship… The texts are accompanied by a great number of images, many of them historical, which enrich the picture about the Monastery. The book can be found in the Menu “Monastery”, at the homepage. As you open the menu, in the lower part you will see the choice “Monograph”, which opens the page with the book cover. If you click on it, the download of the PDF file will start automatically. The size of the book is 41,5 MB.
Otherwise, you can download it from here.
The foreword to the volume, by our Elder and Abbot, Archimandrite Parthenius:
The Bigorski Monastery represents a great and significant part of our spiritual history. In fact, this history could not be imagined without this Sanctuary, which has always been a source of graceful and spiritual strength for the faithful Macedonian nation. Furthermore, in the glorious period of the Rebirth in the XIX century, Bigorski was even more than that, it was the heart of our nation, a zealous guardian of the Cyril and Methodius’ Slavic tradition. But the unfavourable winds of the historic circumstances in the XX century gradually scattered the spiritual fruit that had been collected for centuries before, and the cold winter of communism brought spiritual desolation. So the Monastery became a silent cultural-historical monument; the monasticism, on the other hand, was referred to as something terminated, ancient and long gone.
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