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<SMALL>Written by piske91 on 11:14</SMALL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infamousplaces.info/2008/06/ostrog-monastery.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/infamousplaces.info/img/3D6396AC-73B0-49B1-9CE8-F1C1EBB1F5F3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://infamousplaces.info/2008/06/ostrog-monastery.html"><P>The <B>Monastery of Ostrog</B> (Serbian <SPAN class="mw-redirect">Cyrillic</SPAN>: Манастир Острог; Tr. <I>Manastir Ostrog</I>) is a monastery of the <SPAN class="mw-redirect">Serb Orthodox Church</SPAN> placed against an almost vertical background, high up in the large rock of <SPAN class="new">Ostroška Greda</SPAN>, in Montenegro. It is dedicated to <SPAN class="mw-redirect">Saint Basil of Ostrog</SPAN> (<I>S</I><I>veti Vasilije Ostroški</I>). </P><P>From the monastery, a superb view of the Bjelopavlići plain can be seen. Ostrog, monastery is the most popular pilgrimage place in Montenegro. The Monastery was founded by Vasilije, the Metropolitan Bishop of Herzegovina in the 17th century. He died there in 1671 and some years later he was glorified (canonized) and proclaimed a miracle-worker. His body is enshrined in a reliquary kept in the cave-church dedicated to the Presentation of the Mother of God to the Temple.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E3C2DE27-69E4-4A8B-A0FC-E3639E58921E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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