Thursday, September 07, 2006
Devich, Devic
The other day I received an email from someone on the east coast, another Devich. I don't know if there is any connection between her family and that of my father's but it's always interesting to learn more about that family I never knew.
I was intrigued to hear that her family lived in Dubrovnik for a time! Maybe there is some connection there.
I was prompted by that email to look on the web again at the Devic monastery in Kosovo. Now, I don't know that there is any connection between that place and my family, but having nothing but the name to go on I sort of adopted it a while back. Now I see that under the benevolent rule of the American Empire, through their NATO puppets, the monastery was destroyed by the thugs who have overrun Kosovo. It really saddens me to see my country, America, sponsoring and defending murderous thugs and terrorists. This photo shows what is left of it after the area was Americanized. You can go here to see what it used to look like.
A few minutes later and after looking around the web a bit more I see that it looks like it has now been rebuilt, in part at least, so perhaps I mispoke just now. I really do need to work on my 4th commandment and 8th commandment stuff I think. I really have a very hard time respecting any authorities, especially when they are imperial, then I put the worst possible spin on all they say and do as well. Time to repent, again. Of course repentance is a daily thing for any Christian, every day we make the sign of the Holy Cross in remembrance of our baptism so that we can recall that we have died and been raised again with Christ!
That link has some interesting history too.
St. Janik (Joanikije) of Devic. He was a Serb from Zeta. As a young man, overcome with love for Christ, he left his home and went off to the region of the Ibar, to the mouth of he Black River, to a narrow cave in which, according to tradition, St Peter of Korisa had lived in asceticism before him. But when his fame began to spread among the people, he fled to Drnica and hid himself in the thick forest of Devic. St Janik spent years there in solitude, silence and prayer. According to tradition, the Serbian Prince George Brankovic brought his mad daughter to him, and the saint healed her. In gratitude, George built a monastery in that place known today by the name of Devic. Here are kept Janik's holy and wonderworking relics. In this monastery there lived almost to the present day a famous and godly nun, Euphemia, better-known in the Kosovo region as Blessed Stojna. She entered into rest in the Lord in 1895. ΒΆ 9/07/2006 03:04:00 PM
The other day I received an email from someone on the east coast, another Devich. I don't know if there is any connection between her family and that of my father's but it's always interesting to learn more about that family I never knew.
I was intrigued to hear that her family lived in Dubrovnik for a time! Maybe there is some connection there.
I was prompted by that email to look on the web again at the Devic monastery in Kosovo. Now, I don't know that there is any connection between that place and my family, but having nothing but the name to go on I sort of adopted it a while back. Now I see that under the benevolent rule of the American Empire, through their NATO puppets, the monastery was destroyed by the thugs who have overrun Kosovo. It really saddens me to see my country, America, sponsoring and defending murderous thugs and terrorists. This photo shows what is left of it after the area was Americanized. You can go here to see what it used to look like.
A few minutes later and after looking around the web a bit more I see that it looks like it has now been rebuilt, in part at least, so perhaps I mispoke just now. I really do need to work on my 4th commandment and 8th commandment stuff I think. I really have a very hard time respecting any authorities, especially when they are imperial, then I put the worst possible spin on all they say and do as well. Time to repent, again. Of course repentance is a daily thing for any Christian, every day we make the sign of the Holy Cross in remembrance of our baptism so that we can recall that we have died and been raised again with Christ!
That link has some interesting history too.
St. Janik (Joanikije) of Devic. He was a Serb from Zeta. As a young man, overcome with love for Christ, he left his home and went off to the region of the Ibar, to the mouth of he Black River, to a narrow cave in which, according to tradition, St Peter of Korisa had lived in asceticism before him. But when his fame began to spread among the people, he fled to Drnica and hid himself in the thick forest of Devic. St Janik spent years there in solitude, silence and prayer. According to tradition, the Serbian Prince George Brankovic brought his mad daughter to him, and the saint healed her. In gratitude, George built a monastery in that place known today by the name of Devic. Here are kept Janik's holy and wonderworking relics. In this monastery there lived almost to the present day a famous and godly nun, Euphemia, better-known in the Kosovo region as Blessed Stojna. She entered into rest in the Lord in 1895. ΒΆ 9/07/2006 03:04:00 PM
