Desertificant Macedonian – members of the so-called. EREMIT or AnaHorret monasticism – Personal serving of the Christian faith (ascaminary) manifested with lonely, ascetic and superficial life. Under the influence of early Christian nomination in Byzantium (through Mount Athos) in ⅺ c. In the northern part of Macedonia, the merged of four) Venerable Ioan Rilski, Joachim Osogovski (Sanandand, Prohor Pchinjski and Gavril Lesnovski. According to legendary testimonials, they were now approached together in Ovchepolie, and later everyone withdrew on different sides in lonely reply. Venerable Ioan went to Rila, Prohor moved to the subcontracting brainer, Joachim was ascetic to Kriva Palanka on the Osogovo Mountain, and Gavril remained at Lesnovo Gora at Zletovo. Their ereemite monk was not an extension of the Ohrid Kinoska monasticism, founded by the Saints Clement and Naum Ohridski, nor was it prompted by the church peak of the Ohrid Archbishopric. The indicator struggle received an echo as a popular spiritual movement after the collapse of the Samuil’s kingdom, and crept the Slavic consciousness in the pressure of the Byzantium. For each of the “honest four-sized association”, temples were built, in which today the fraternity of the Rilian, Pchinjski, Osogovo and Lesnovo Monastery. Lit.: CV. Grozdanov, portraits of saints from Macedonia from ⅸ-ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ century, Skopje, 1983, p. 159-180; I. Velev, St. Gavril Lesnovski in the literary tradition, Skopje, 1996; C. Stojchevska-Antic, Local Hagiographies in Macedonia, ⅱ Amended edition, Skopje, 2003. I. Well. Ivo Puhan.
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