Anthony Bagaš, also known as Arsenije Bagaš (; ), was a
Serbian nobleman
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from
Kastoria
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who retreated to
Mount Athos
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The mountain and most of the Athos peninsula are governed ...
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 m ...
) in the 1380s, becoming its abbott and 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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, and refurbishing the monastery with revenue from Serbian silver and gold mines, making it one of the major
Serbian monasteries.
[ He translated hagiographical works into Serbian.
He had a brother, ]Nikola
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, who in 1385 donated the monastery of Mesonesiotissa 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 (1246-1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages
* Elder Grigorije (fl. 1310–1355), builder of Saint Archangels Monastery
* Elder Siluan
*Lazar the Hilandarian
Lazar (; ), also known as Lazar the Serb or Lazar the Hilandarian (), was a Serbian Orthodox monk-scribe and horologist who invented and built the first known mechanical public clock in Russia in 1404. The clock, which also struck the hours, wa ...
(fl. 1404), the first known Serbian and Russian watchmaker
* Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church
* Miroslav Gospel
Miroslav Gospel (, ) is a 362-page Serbian illuminated manuscript Gospel Book on parchment with very rich decorations. It is one of the oldest surviving documents written in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic. The gospel is considered a ...
* Gabriel the Hilandarian Gabriel the Hilandarian ( 1359–d. after 1412) was a Serbian monk-scribe. There is very little information available about Gabriel the Hilandarian, like most modest monks who lived in the 14th and early 15th century. It is known that he translated ...
* Constantine of Kostenets
Constantine of Kostenets (; – after 1431), also known as Constantine the Philosopher ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Константин Филозоф, Konstantin Filozof, separator=" / "), was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and chronicler, who spent mo ...
* Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev
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and All Rus'
* Gregory Tsamblak Gregory Tsamblak (; ; ; sr-Cyr, Григорије Цамблак; ; ), member of the Tzamplakon family, was a writer and cleric active in Bulgaria, Moldavia, Serbia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Principality of Kiev.
Biography
Early life
...
* Isaija the Monk
* Grigorije of Gornjak
* 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 o ...
* Rajčin Sudić
* Nicodemus of Tismana
* Dimitar of Kratovo
* Marko Pećki
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 from 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 (1923–20 ...
People associated with Agiou Pavlou Monastery