Prislop Monastery

From the county of Hateg is a place of recovering and meditation. Prislop Monastery had enjoyed the grace of three saints and it had three founders.

The history of the monastery started at the end of the 14th century, when the Saint Nicodim built this place.

It was the third place built on Romanian ground. The monastery was built on glade near the Retezat Mountains, where rise a stream, which in 1564 proved to be miracle making.

In the year 1959 the monastery is was closed by the communists. Only in 1976 the place is taking his statute of nun monastery.

This momastery is theological seminary of girls. The nuns guide the young girls to studi; they continue to paint icons after the art of the old ones, to weave carpets in which you can find the old folk Romanian motifs.

Another Christian mission of these places is "The Home of Saint"- a cave dug nobody knows how it was done in hard stone three hundred years ago. In this cave lived, for many years, in fast and prayers Saint Ioan from Prislop.

The right word is that Prislop Monastery can be considered a success.

By Vasiliu Razvan Alin
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