Fight for Hilandar: How King Alexander i of Serbia saved the Holy Royal Lavra from Bulgarian invasions
Kurir 10.02.2021
King Alexander visited the monastery at Easter 1896, on his way to the Olympic Games in Athens. At the time, there were about 70 monks at Hilandar, of whom only three were Serbian.
The Serbian candle, lit by Saint Simeon and Saint Sava at Hilandar, was about to go out in the late 19th century, after centuries of prayer and fasting. At the time, the Holy Royal Lavra was Serbian in name only. The monastery was run by Bulgarians, and it was owing to King Alexander Obrenović that this shrine had not been taken over and that the light of Serbian spirituality had not been extinguished. Migrations The large-scale migrations of the Serbian people
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