MĂNĂSTIREA MAVROMOL DIN GALAȚI.

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Abstract

A monastic settlement of monks, the only princely building in the city of Galaţi, built by voivode Constantin Duca of Moldavia in 1702, which has survived until our time, Mavromol Monastery, today a church of myrrh, has a history that is not yet sufficiently known. Recent incursions into the archive of the Vatoped Athonite Monastery, carried out by Dr. Florin Marinescu from Athens, to which are added some documents from the
same archival fund received by Fr. Eugen Drăgoi from Galați, through the kindness of Reverend Efrem, the abbot of Vatopedu, bring rich and interesting testimonies about the past of this monastery, important pieces of documentary material for a necessary monograph of this monastery from Galaţi.
The present study – of which we are publishing here the first part - utilizes previously unknown information, which emerges from Vatopedi documents belonging to the second half of the 18th century (years 1767-1786), regarding the properties of the Galățean Mavromol and some of the unknown servants of the former monastery in the city of Danube in Moldavia, an important fair in that century