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Monastery "St. John the Baptist - Bigorski"
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    • 20 November 2020

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    • 19 October 2020

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    • 18 October 2020

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  • The British Ambassador, Mrs. Rachel Galloway, visited the Bigorski Monastery

    • 20 November 2020

  • The Bigorski Monastery Celebrates its 1000th Anniversary

    • 19 October 2020

  • Soon a new documentary film titled “A 1000 years witness of the Light”

    • 8 September 2020

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The monastery was founded in the year of 1020 by the first Archibshop of Ohrid John of Debar.

It is built in the honour of the Forerunner and Baptist of our Lord, Saint John, for whom the Lord Jesus Christ himself said that there is no greater among those born by women.

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