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Marko Pećki (1360 in Ljevoši, near
Peć Peja or Peć, ), is the fifth most populous city in Kosovo and serves as the seat of the Peja Municipality and the District of Peja. It is located in the Rugova (region), Rugova region on the eastern section of the Accursed Mountains along the ...
in
Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...
,
Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem = () , image_map = , map_caption = Location of Serbia (gree ...
– after 1411 in Ljevoši, Kosovo, Serbia) was a Serbian medieval writer and poet who lived at the time of Prince
Lazar of Serbia Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар Хребељановић; – 15 June 1389) was a medieval Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbian Empire. Lazar's state, referre ...
and
Stefan Lazarević Stefan Lazarević ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Лазаревић, 1377 – 19 July 1427), also known as Stefan the Tall (), was a Serbian ruler as prince (1389–1402) and Despot (court title), despot (1402–1427). He was also a diplomat, legislat ...
. He is best known for the "Life of the Serbian Patriarch Ephraim" and other biographies.


Biography

Bishop Mark of Peć (hence Marko Pećki) belongs to a prominent place in the
hesychast Hesychasm () is a contemplative monastic tradition in the Eastern Christian traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches in which stillness (''hēsychia'') is sought through uninterrupted Jesus prayer. While rooted in ...
monastic hagiography from the time of Prince
Lazar of Serbia Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар Хребељановић; – 15 June 1389) was a medieval Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbian Empire. Lazar's state, referre ...
and the
Battle of Kosovo The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad I. It was one of the largest battles of the Late Middl ...
in 1389. He left his autobiographical data in his Letter to commemorate Gerasim and Euphemia (
Jefimija Jefimija ( sr-Cyrl, Јефимија, ; 1349–1405), secular name Jelena Mrnjavčević ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Мрњавчевић, link=no, or ), was a Serbian noblewoman, wife of Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević, considered to be the first femal ...
). Marko was born in 1360 in a village near Peć in Serbian Kosovo, as the youngest of four sons, born into a priestly family. We do not know his baptismal name, however, we know that all four brothers were priests. His father's secular name was probably George because he chose Gerasim as his new name for his new monastic way of life, and as Hieromonk Gerasim, he went on to build the church of St. George, where Marko's mother lived in the same cloister with Euphemia. Dedicated to church service, Marko received a monastic designation from Serbian Patriarch
Jefrem (patriarch) Jefrem ( sr-cyr, Јефрем; ''Ephraem''; c. 1312 – died 1400), also known as Elder Jefrem (старац Јефрем) and Jefrem of Serbia, was the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church twice, in 1375–1379 and 1389–1392, and also a ren ...
in 1777 when he was only seventeen, the exact age for acceptance into monastic life. Under the patriarch's spiritual guidance, Marko spent twenty-three years as a monk, educated in the
Serbian Patriarchate of Peć Serbian Patriarchate of Peć (, ''Srpska patrijaršija u Peći''), or simply Peć Patriarchate (, ''Pećka patrijaršija''), was an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate that existed from 1346 to 1463, and then again from 155 ...
. He was appointed Hieromonk during Jefrem's second tenure in the Patriarchate of Peć in autumn of 1389 or in the spring of 1390. That year Marko was elected bishop of Peć at the same Holy Assembly of Bishops when Danilo III Banjski (
Danilo III (patriarch) Danilo III ( sr-cyr, Данило III; also called Danilo the Younger, 1350–1400) was the fifth Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1390–1396), a writer and poet, known also for transferring the relics of Lazar of Serbia from the chur ...
was consecrated patriarch after Jefrem renounced the patriarchal see in 1390 and retired (he died in 1400). The exact date of Marko's death is unknown.


See also

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Teodosije the Hilandarian Teodosije the Hilandarian or Theodosije of Hilandar (; 1246–1328) was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages; the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts named him one of the 100 most prominent ...
(1246–1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages *
Elder Grigorije Elder Grigorije (; 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 monastic title of ''elder'' (''starac''). T ...
(fl. 1310 – 1355), builder of
Saint Archangels Monastery The Monastery of the Holy Archangels (; ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Prizren, Kosovo. The monastery was founded by the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia, Stefan Dušan (reigned 1331–1355) between 1343 and 1352 on ...
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Antonije Bagaš Anthony Bagaš, also known as Arsenije Bagaš (; ), was a Serbian nobleman from Kastoria who retreated to Mount Athos in between 1356 and 1366, where he later bought and restored the ruined Athonite monastery of Saint Paul (Agiou Pavlou) with t ...
(fl. 1356 – 1366), bought and restored the Agiou Pavlou monastery *
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 Pachomius the Serb (; ), also known as Pachomius Logothetes (; ), was a 15th-century Serbian hagiographer who, after taking monastic vows, was schooled on Mount Athos and mastered the ornate style of medieval Serbian literature.G. M. Prokhorov, � ...
(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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev Cyprian ( – 16 September 1406) was a prelate of Bulgarian origin, who served as the Metropolitan of Kiev, Rus' and Lithuania (2 December 1375 – 12 February 1376) and the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' (12 February 1376 – 1 ...
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 ...
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Isaija the Monk Isaija the Monk ( 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 monk-scribes in the Middle ...
* Elder Siluan *
Romylos of Vidin Romylos of Vidin, also known as Romylos of Ravanica or Romylus the Athonite (''Romil Svetogorac'', ''Romil Svetogorski''; ; ), was a 14th-century Bulgarians, Bulgarian monk, a disciple of Gregory of Sinai. He is also known as the teacher of Grigo ...
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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 *
Dimitar of Kratovo Dimitar of Kratovo () 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 lexicographer, and one of the most important membe ...
* Nicodemus of Tismana * Anonymous Athonite * Kalist Rasoder


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