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Medical practice was highly important in medieval monasteries. Caring for the sick was an important obligation. There is evidence of this from the monastery Vivarium, the monastery of Cassiodorus, whose monks were instructed to read the medical works of Greek writers such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Dioscorides.
Mësonjëtorja or the Albanian School was the first secular school in the Albanian language in Ottoman Albania. [1] It was opened in Korçë during the late Ottoman period. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The school building serves as a museum [ 2 ] and is located on the north side of Bulevardi Shën Gjergji (St. George Boulevard).
From this school graduated the Bishop of Berat, Josif. [4] During the Albanian National Awakening period the school became one of the places where the Albanian Language was taught. [4] An important cleric of the monastery was Father Mark, who was the priest to find the bones of Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, thrown in the Seman by the Turkish ...
The Dhuvjan Monastery (Albanian: Manastiri i Dhuvjanit; Greek: Μονή Δούβιανης), also known as Monastery of Saints Quiricus and Julietta (Albanian: Manastiri i Shën Qirjakut dhe Julitës; Greek: Μονή Αγιού Κηρύκου καί Ιουλίττας), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in the western part of the village of Dhuvjan, Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.
St. George's Monastery (Albanian: Manastiri i Shën Gjergjit) is an ancient Orthodox monastery in Demë, near Sarandë, Sarandë. It is a Cultural Monument of Albania . [ 1 ]
St. Nicholas Monastery Church (Albanian: Kisha e Manastirit të Shën Kollit; Greek: Καθολικό Ιεράς Μονής Αγίου Νικολάου) is the katholikon of the abandoned Orthodox monastery of Saint George in Mesopotam, Vlorë County, Albania. The carving of a Lion. Community celebration at Mesopotam Monastery on 20 May 2018.
According to marginal notes in church books, there had been teachers in Bozhenitsa long before the construction of the school. Regular education in the school and its first edifice date from 1806 during the Bulgarian National Revival. The first teacher was Stoyan Knezovsky. In 1835 a new school was constructed near the Church of Saint Paraskeva.
According to the donor's inscription, the church inside the Monastery was built in 1632 and painted in 1659. [2] Today the monastery is declared a Cultural Monument of Albania. [3] The monastery includes the church as well as two other buildings which were part of the monastery. The church has dimensions of 17m x 7.65 X 9m.