PopovicT2010.02.06 [21:41]
GOOGLE traduction:
Sraslog to places with mountains, river and rocks, where the monastery Vitovnica, comes the gentle wavy region, through which from Petrovac na Mlavi separates the village Melnica.
Monastery and the village of the same name, certainly got the name after the river Vitovnica and rivers probably named vodeničkog wheel (winches, vit'o), which runs the water and the extent to which power mills. Given that this sacred and called Vitelnica, Viteonica, Vitomnica and Vitaonica, is much more closely and more explanation, which says that the monastery got its name from the name for the inn (vitalnica), in which Vita - dwell, reside, live. This is necessary to add that the monastery in the Middle Ages called vitalište monk, which would have meant a place where monks reside (family).
Vitovnica monastery is the legacy of King Milutin, founded in the late thirteenth century. It was built in gratitude for the victory of Bulgarian criminals, tatarskog origin Drmanom and Kudelinom, who have raged this area. It is assumed that so marked the final borders of the Serbian state of the time. However, some data indicate that in this place before the temple was destroyed and King Milutin built the new sanctuary on the foundations of old.
The oldest information about the monastery and his fraternity originate from the 15th century, when mentioned vitovnički Abbot Macarius, and gold-plated gospel, which is now located in Fruškogorski manastiri Bešenovo. At the time Kočina Krajina Serb rebellion Turks temple and living quarters to the ground destroyed, and since then a long period the monastery was completely abandoned and overgrown with weeds. Renewed only at the time Karadjordje, in addition to rebuilding the monks took part and all the surrounding villages of prominent people including celebrities Karadjordjev uprising. Complete restoration performed in 1856. , when the dozidana narthex and bell tower, the roof covered with a white sheet, renovated quarters and dining room, and the entire area of the church painted.
Of the original church, in today's church have been preserved only its foundations, and the frescoes and the iconostasis from the 12th century. In the middle part of the temple is the tomb of the unknown monk Sinaite, which although now empty, the people respect as a great holy.
Do medical sources comes from the path of the monastery, across a small bridge on the River. Any time in which to find here, you will find the visitors who will speak about his healing, isceliteljskoj healing power and examples, so faithful to this sacred place of prayer coming from Belgrade and other remote areas.
Credit for the revival of the monastery had arhimadrit Tadej, vitovnički dalekovidac and jasnovidac, as he called those who helped. He was born in the village Vitovnica, not far from the monastery, 1914, and died in 2003, when he asked to relieve the duties abbot. He is remembered as the father of Tadej and as one of those''why''sun is shining, as they say his followers.
