Mesić Monastery
Mesić Monastery ( Serbian Манастир Месић Manastir Mesić ) is a women's monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the diocese of Vršac in Vojvodina . It is one of the most important monasteries in the southeast of the Banat .
history
According to local tradition, the monastery was founded in 1225. Arsenije Bogdanović Hilandarac was therefore from Saint Sava to the abbess appointed the monastery. Another, more likely, version is that it was founded by Jovan Branković, the last of the despots of the Branković family, at the end of the 15th century. The first written documents that assigned the Mesić Monastery to the Patriarchate of Peć date from 1660 and 1666.
The monastery was thus one of the first Serbian monasteries during the settlement of southern Hungary in the 15th and 16th centuries by the Serbian population. This document also shows that Mesić was the residence of Spyridon Štibice, the bishop of Vršac , in the period immediately after the great immigration . The monastery was destroyed several times, destroyed by the Ottomans in 1716 and 1788 and rebuilt after a second destruction by the Vršac bishop Josef Šakabenta Jovanović. In an earthquake in 1892, the church suffered most of the damage in the monastery complex.
Design and inventory
The church is dedicated to John the Baptist . It contains the remains of frescoes from the 17th century, but most of the frescoes were created in the 18th century. The latter are designed rather conservatively, are based on the art of the early Middle Ages and show a resistance to the emerging baroque art . As with most church buildings in Vojvodina, the church was later intervened, for example by adding a baroque bell tower , which was planned in its original form by Anton Bloberger.
The monastery has many valuable manuscripts and printed books in its collection, as well as a number of pictures by well-known painters, such as Johann Popović von Opovo ( portrait of JJ Šakabenta ), Johan Tobias Kaergling, Arsenije Petrović, Pavel Đurković, and other less well-known painters.
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- Stradanja i uzdizanja manastira Mesić ( Serbian ) September 19, 2003. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 6 ′ 16 ″ N , 21 ° 23 ′ 36 ″ E