Showing posts with label St. Clement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Clement. Show all posts

The Oldest St. Klementevsky Monastery

 Monastery of St. Clement's is located in Inkerman, a suburb of Sevastopol. It's one of the oldest cave temples in the Crimea. The monastery is visible to every visitor to the tourist, who arrives in town on a train - after all tracks are just a few meters from its buildings and cells. The appearance of the monastery tradition connects with the worship of the Holy. Clement, bishop of Rome (the pope) in 92-99 years, who was exiled by the Emperor Trajan for preaching Christianity in a quarry near the Chersonese, preaching and killed here in 101 year. The relics of St. Clement, acquired a year after his death, kept at first in an underwater cave near the Chersonese, access to which was opened, according to legend, once a year, when - the day of death of the righteous - the sea retreated, then they were moved to a small island in the middle of the bay In which, according to legend, angels hands church was built. Near the monastery there is a water source, according to legend miraculously opened St. Clement to the plight of convicts. 6-7 centuries to grow very monastic rock fortress, later called Kalamita that is interpreted from the Greek as "Good Landing"