Mesić monastery

Mesic Monastery (Serbian Манастир Месић / Manastir Mesic ) 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

The monastery said to have been the local legend founded in 1225. Arsenije Bogdanovic Hilandarac was accordingly appointed by the Holy Sava abbess of the monastery. Another version with a higher probability states that it was founded by Jovan Brankovic, the last of the despot from the House of Brankovics, end of the 15th century. The first written documents with which the monastery Mesic is assigned to the Patriarchate of Peć, from the years 1660 and 1666.

The monastery was therefore one of the first Serbian monasteries during the colonization of southern Hungary in the 15th and 16th centuries by the Serbian population. This document also shows that Mesic in the period immediately after the great immigration of the residence Štibice Spyridon, Bishop of Vršac was. The monastery was destroyed several times, destroyed in 1716 and 1788 by the Ottomans and constructed according to a second destruction by the Vršacer Bishop Josef Šakabenta Jovanović again. During an earthquake in 1892, the church suffered the most damage in the monastery.

Configuration and inventory

The church is dedicated to John the Baptist. Nearby her remains of frescoes from the 17th century, most of frescoes, however, are founded in the 18th century. The latter are more conservative design, based on the art of the early Middle Ages and show a resistance to the emerging Baroque art. In the church was later intervened sustainable, for example by the addition of a Baroque bell tower, which was planned in its original form by Anton Bloberger as with most churches in Vojvodina.

The monastery has in its portfolio many valuable manuscripts and printed books, as well as a series of images of famous artists such as Johann Popović of Opovo ( Portrait of JJ Šakabenta ), Johan Tobias Kaergling, Arsenije Petrović, Pavel Đurković, as well as other, less well-known painter.

Swell

• Stradanja i uzdizanja Manastira Mesic ( Serbian) 19 September 2003. Accessed on 21 February 2010.