Hram Svete Petke Trnove

Near Berkasovo, two kilometers northwest of the monumental complex of the parish church, is the Church of St. Paraskeva, located in a beautiful bay on the stretch of Ashman, surrounded by forests and vineyards Beneath the very foundation, on the east side of the church, there is an arranged spring, whose water is considered by the people to be healing and miraculous. The monastery is dedicated to Saint Petka Trnova, which is celebrated on October 27. However, the people have been gathering around the monastery for a long time, on August 8, because it was then declared a monastery in 2008. It is located not far from Shida, in a valley in a beautiful natural environment. Until recently, there was no road to the monastery. Before today's church, there are written traces of historians from 1863 that there was a wooden church around which the people gathered. The log cabin church burned down and after that the present church was built. The altar of the church is located above the spring and this spring has never dried up. The construction of the lodgings, the basic condition for the church to become a monastery, began four years ago. The inn next to the church, 25 meters long and 5 meters wide, was built on the first floor. monastery-Svete-Petke-Berkasovo - copy On the ground floor there is a dining room and a kitchen that can accommodate 150 people, while on the first floor there are five rooms for monks and nuns. A new church bell was set. There is a spring next to the church, whose water is said to cure various diseases. There are several legends about the origin of the spring, and the people remembered and transmitted one orally. Namely, it is said in that legend, she was a kind of girl, shepherdess, poor and deaf. One year there was a terrible drought, so her sheep were dying of thirst. It should be noted that this terrain, where the shepherdess kept her flock, is quite poor in water. So the shepherdess cried incessantly, unable to help her sheep, until some strange inner voice came to her, and said that she was praying for her baptismal feast, her baptismal feast was Holy Friday. The girl took the icon of Good Friday with her, placed it on the ground and knelt and prayed all day. A spring appeared at the place where the icon stood. The spring was first built in, and later a place of worship was built above it. This is also confirmed by the marble plaque on which are engraved the words of gratitude of a citizen of Dubrovnik who was cured of a serious illness here. You can also see an inscription that testifies that the daughter of a resident of Gibarac, who had paralysis, was cured by using this water and her family is grateful to St. Petka for that ...

Very beautiful church ...

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