Anthony Bagaš also known as Arsenije Bagaš ( sr, Антоније Багаш; fl. 1366 – 1385) was a
Serbian nobleman
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from
Kastoria
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who retreated to
Mount Athos
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in between 1356 and 1366, where he later bought and restored the ruined
Athonite monastery of Saint Paul (Agiou Pavlou) with the help of
Nikola-Gerasim Radonja (the son of ''sebastokrator''
Branko Mladenović
Branko ( sr-cyr, Бранко; 1331–65) was a Serbian magnate who served to king and Serbian Empire, emperor Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55), and emperor Stefan Uroš V (r. 1355–71), with the titles of ''sluga'' and later ''sevastokrator''. A me ...
) in the 1380s, becoming its abbott - taking the monastic name Arsenios (Arsenije).
[Rosenqvist, p. 63] The two were successful in receiving donations from both the
Byzantines and
Serbs
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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
, and refurbishing the monastery with revenue from Serbian silver and gold mines, making it one of the major
Serbian monasteries
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.
[ He translated hagiographical works into Serbian.
He had a brother, ]Nikola
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, who in 1385 donated the monastery of Mesonesiotissa
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near Edessa
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, together with villages, churches and other property to the Saint Paul monastery of Arsenije. Some scholars believe that the Bagaš family was originally from Vranje
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in Serbia
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See also
*Teodosije the Hilandarian
Teodosije the Hilandarian or Theodosije of Hilandar ( sr, Теодосије Хиландарац/Teodosije Hilandarac; 1246–1328) was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages; the Serbian Acad ...
(1246-1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages
*Elder Grigorije
Elder Grigorije ( sr, Старац Григорије; 1310–55) was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and writer. Grigorije hailed from the Prizren region, and was a nobleman in the Serbian Empire until he took monastic vows and received the monasti ...
(fl. 1310–1355), builder of Saint Archangels Monastery
The Monastery of the Holy Archangels ( sr, Манастир Светих Архангела, Manastir Svetih Arhangela; al, Manastiri i Arkangjelit të Shenjtë) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Prizren, Kosovo. The monastery was foun ...
*Elder Siluan Siluan ( sr-cyr, Силуан; 14th century) was a Serbian Orthodox monk and poet who lived and worked in the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos in the 14th century. Very little is known about him. The mystical tradition of prayer known as hesychas ...
* Lazar the Hilandarian (fl. 1404), the first known Serbian and Russian watchmaker
*Pachomius the Serb
Pachomius the Serb (russian: Пахомий Серб, sr, Пахомије Србин), also known as Pachomius Logothetes, russian: Пахомий Логофет, el, Παχώμιος Λογοθέτης) was a 15th-century Serbian hagiographer ...
(fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church
* Miroslav Gospel
* Gabriel the Hilandarian
* Constantine of Kostenets Constantine of Kostenets ( bg, Константин Костенечки, Konstantin Kostenechki; born ca. 1380, died after 1431), also known as Constantine the Philosopher ( sr, Константин Филозоф), was a medieval Bulgarian scholar ...
* Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'
* Gregory Tsamblak
Gregory Tsamblak or Grigorij Camblak ( bg, Григорий Цамблак, sr-Cyr, Григорије Цамблак; c. 1365–1420) was a Bulgarian writer and cleric. He was the pretended Metropolitan of Lithuania between 1413 and 1420. A Bulga ...
* Isaija the Monk
Isaija the Monk ( sr, Инок Исаија or in English: Inok Isaija; ca. 1300–after 1375), also known as Elder Isaija (Elder Isaiah) () and Isaija of Serres (Elder Isaiah of Serres) (), was a 14th-century Serbian monk, one of many Serbian mo ...
* Grigorije of Gornjak
Grigorije of Gornjak ( sr, Григорије Горњачки, Григорије из Горњака; 1375–1379), also known as Grigorije the Younger () and Grigorije the Silent (), was Serbian Orthodox monk who was canonized as saint. He stud ...
* Atanasije (scribe) Atanasije and Atanasije the Serb ( sr-cyr, Атанасије; 1200–1265), a disciple of Saint Sava, was a Serbian monk-scribe who lived and worked in Serbia in the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, it was common for monk-scribes not to speak or ...
* Rajčin Sudić Rajčin Sudić (c. 1335-after 1360) was a Serbian monk- scribe who lived and worked during the time of Lord Vojihna, the father of Jefimija.
From the inscription Rajčin Sudić left in the margin of the Chronicles written in the 14th Century, we k ...
* Nicodemus of Tismana
Nikodim Tismanski, also known as Nikodim Osvećeni, Nikodim Vratnenski, Nikodim Grčić, and in Romanian, Nikodim de la Tismana (Prilep, today in North Macedonia, then Byzantine Empire, c. 1320 – Tismana, Walachia, now Romania, 26 December 140 ...
* Dimitar of Kratovo
Dimitar of Kratovo ( sr, Димитар Кратовски) was a 15th-century Slavic (https://pravoslavnaya.academic.ru/6167/%D0%94%D0%98%D0%9C%D0%98%D0%A2%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%99_%D0%9A%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%92%D0%95%D0%A6) writer and lexicographe ...
* Marko Pećki
Marko Pećki (village of Ljevoši, near Peć in Kosovo, Serbia, 1360 – Ljevoši, Kosovo, Serbia, after 1411) was a Serbian medieval writer and poet who lived at the time of Prince Lazar of Serbia and Stefan Lazarević. He is best known for the " ...
Notes
References
Sources
*Jan Olof Rosenqvist, ''Interaction and isolation in late Byzantine culture''
Google book
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*Angold
Eastern Christianity
Michael Angold
Through the looking glass
Byzantium through British eyes : papers from the twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995, p. 141
Further reading
Studi Slavistici : rivista dell'Associazione Italiana degli Slavisti - 2005 - 2 - Recensioni
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14th-century Serbian nobility
People of the Serbian Empire
Medieval Serbian Orthodox clergy
People from Kastoria
Antonije Antonije is a Serbian given name. Notable people with this name include the following:
*Antonije Abramović (1919–1996), Montenegrin Eastern Orthodox priest
* Antonije Bagaš (fl. 1366 – 1385), Serbian nobleman
*Antonije Isaković (1923–2002 ...
People associated with Agiou Pavlou Monastery