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Gift to Monastery Manasija |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2001 |
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Serbian Unity Congress' Blago Fund donated the latest
generation computer and scanner to monastery Manasija.
Computer will be used by the sisterhood of Manasija to
archive one of the oldest and reachest library on the
Balkan penninsula. Since the early XIVth century, Manasija
monastery was the home of the Resava School, where educated
monks did literally and copying work.
The main aim of the Blago Fund is to preserve and promote
Serbian cultural heritage, and gift to Manasija monastery is yet
another step towards that goal.
In the letter that to the monastery sisterhood, amongst other
is said:
"One of the reasons why our organisation exists is to
facilitate
the preservation of the precious spiritual and cultural heritage
left to us by our ancestors. It is equally important that this
heritage is shown in a contemporary manner and a contemporary
outlook.
Knowing that the Manasija monastery has the oldest monastery
library on the Balkans with many valuable and aged books that
your sisterhood took care for many centuries, we are sure that
this modern equipment
would help you in important work of archiving this treasure."
Serbian Unity Congress wishes to emphasize special gratitude to
Mother Varvara from Manasija monastery, without whose wholehearted
collaboration this project would not be fulfilled.
(srpski)
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