МАНАСТИР РОЖДЕСТВА ПРЕСВЕТЕ БОГОРОДИЦЕ (ПОТПЛАНИНА) У РАТИШЕВИНИ КОД ХЕРЦЕГ НОВОГ
MONASTERY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (POTPLANINA) IN RATIŠEVINA NEAR HERCEG-NOVI

Summary/Abstract: The Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village Ratiševina near Herceg-Novi was located within the hamlet Potplanina after which it bore the common and most frequently used name. The presence of the brethren is testified in the oldest preserved Venetian land-register of Herceg-Novi, completed in 1690, which includes the fathers-monks as the owners of property in the neighbouring village Mojdež, but also the property in Sutorina and Meljine. Later, during the 18th century, the documentation of the Venetian Archives in Herceg-Novi mentions an entire series of monastery head-abbots and monks in Potplanina, starting from the father Isaija (Vitomirović) in the first quarter of the 18th century, to the father Nikodim (Lazarević) in the first half of the 19th century. In case of the Archimandrite of Savina, very reverend father Arsenije Milutinović, there is a certain overlapping in heading both monasteries in Herceg-Novi. As it can be seen from the census (Note od Soli) of the village Ratiševina, the monastery brethren remained there through the entire time of the Venetian rule. Certainly, one should take into account very serious indications about Potplanina as a seat of the second Serbian bishop in Novi at the end of the 17th century.

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