The Holy Trinity Monastery. Patronal Feast, Twelve Years After the Pogrom.

The monastery of the Holy Trinity in Musuciste is one of the ancient holy places of Kosova and Metohija, and no Christian can rightly remain indifferent to its tragic fate.

This monastery was founded in the fourteenth century. The monastery’s synodic (prayer list of patrons) began in 1465, and earlier, a priceless collection of hand-written books from the fifteenth to eighteenth century were preserved in its library. During Turkish rule, the monastery was desecrated many times, but monastic life never died there. Not far from the monastery, in the forest, isolated cells can still be found—a witness to the prayerful labors of the monastery’s inhabitants……

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