A legend has it that the monastery was founded in 1380 by Mstislavl Prince Semyon Lugveny. By the way, Semyon was the last ...
Saint Catherine's Monastery is the oldest continuously-functioning library and Christian monastery in the world. Located at the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt, the monastery was built by orders of ...
Legend has it that the miraculous Tupichevskaya Icon of the Mother of God was revealed in the early 17th century to Konstantin Matskevich, a local Orthodox nobleman, in a forest.