Hoshiv Basilian monastery
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Hoshiv Basilian Monastery - a famous place of pilgrimage for believers Greek Catholics from different countries. Monastery near Goshev first mentioned in documents in 1509. Initially Hoshiv monastery located in the natural boundary Red Dilok. In the XVII century the monastery was burned by the Tartars and rebuilt already in Jasna Gora, where he is now.

Initially, the monastery building was made of wood. In the years 1835-1842 it was dismantled and built of stone. The heyday of the monastery took place during the headship of Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky. Before the First World War, the monastery was one of the biggest spiritual centers in Galicia. In 1939, the Soviet government began to persecute the Greek-Catholic monks and therefore tried to close the monastery. In spite of everything, it lasted until 1950, when he was eliminated completely. In the premises of the monastery housed a children's home, and later an army warehouse, and after - recreation.

In the early 1990s the monastery revived with the support of the faithful. Their donations have been renovated premises of the monastery and the church, eliminated all traces of social structures here. With the German restorers was restored five large paintings of the period of the XVIII century and created 15 new. The monastery Hoshiv installed electronic bells, which are the only ones in Ukraine.

The main relic of the monastery is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God Hoshiv XVIII century (the shrine - a copy of the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa). It is often styled "Queen of the Carpathians." August 28, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI solemnly crowned icon of the Mother of God Hoshiv. During the episcopal liturgy accomplished overlay clothes and crowns on the icon. It was the second coronation of the icon after the XVIII century.

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Hoshiv Basilian monastery