St. Onuphrius Monastery In Jabłeczna
St. Onuphrius Monastery is a stauropegion Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox male monastery in Jabłeczna, Poland, under the jurisdiction of the Polish Orthodox Church. The monastery was founded no later than the late 15th century. According to legend, its establishment was determined by the miraculous appearance of the icon of Onuphrius, St. Onuphrius above the Bug (river), Bug river. Thanks to successive land grants from the subsequent owners of Jabłeczna, the monastery became a significant center of Orthodox worship in Chełm Land. After the Union of Brest, the monks of Jabłeczna refused to accept its provisions and, despite pressure, remained Orthodox, remaining an important center of dissenters until the fall of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The situation of the monastery underwent a total change after the three partitions of Poland and the establishment of the Congress Poland in personal union with Russia. From then on, the monastery was financially supported by the Russia ...
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Jabłeczna
Jabłeczna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sławatycze, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately north-east of Sławatycze, south-east of Biała Podlaska, and north-east of the regional capital Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t .... The village has an approximate population of 320. References Villages in Biała Podlaska County {{BiałaPodlaska-geo-stub ...
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