Saint Sava
First archbishop of Serbs · Writers · Lived 1169 to 1235 · aged 66
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Something wrong?A Serbian prince who walked away from power in 1192 to become a monk on Mount Athos, then returned to architect his people's independence - writing their first constitution, founding their autonomous church, and embedding both religion and law so deeply into the culture that nearly four centuries later, rebels would...
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Crystal cross of St Sava 13th century - Savina Monastery - Herceg Novi
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, At first we were confused. The East thought that we were West while the West considered us to be the East.
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Rastko Nemanjić was born the youngest son of Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja, founder of the Nemanjić dynasty, and briefly ruled the appanage of Zachlumia from 1190 to 1192 before abandoning the prospect of rule for monastic life. Taking the name Sava at Mount Athos, he established the Hilandar monastery, which became a pivotal cultural and religious center for Serbs. In 1219 the Patriarchate in Nicea recognized him as the first Serbian Archbishop, and that same year he authored the Zakonopravilo nomocanon - Serbia's oldest known constitution - securing full religious and political independence for his people. He also wrote the first Serbian biography, a life of his father Stefan Nemanja, and is regarded as the greatest figure of Serbian medieval literature. When the Ottomans burned his remains in 1594 to crush an uprising in which Serbs had marched under icons of his face, they built what would become the Church of Saint Sava on that site - one of the largest church buildings in the world.
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