Lavrovskii monastery St.Onufriy

Close to the border with Poland , 106 km from Lviv , there is a small village Lavrov. It is noteworthy one of the oldest shrines in Western Ukraine. This Basilian monastery Lavrovskii St.Onufriy. Thick walls immediately make it clear that he was and defense construction.

According to legend, founded the monastery in the 13th century, Prince Laurel. There is speculation that this monastic name of Lithuanian Grand Duke Vayshalgasa. However, the first documentary mention of the monastery to the 14th century. For many centuries it was the center of spirituality, culture and education.

The main shrine of the temple was part of the relics St.Onufriy, the patron saint of women in childbirth. Other parts were kept in Rome, Constantinople and Braunschweig. Unfortunately, due to Turkish raids shrine is not preserved. But the cult of St. Anufry spread from monastery to Galicia. And after almost five centuries, in 2011, the relics were returned to the monastery, which holds today, bringing hope to believers.

The temple was rebuilt several times. After a fire in the 17th century, rebuilt in the monastery were features of the Ukrainian Baroque, and the current view he acquired after the restoration in the 19th century. To this day since the 13th century reached the sanctuary of the temple. Preserved frescoes from the 15th century.

In the underground necropolis of the monastery buried Moldavian princes Constantine Bessarabia and Stepan Petrichayka. Here lie the Jerusalem Patriarch Macarius Ligarides, Metropolitan of Kiev, the Greek-Catholic bishops.

At the monastery is growing 700-year-old oak tree Prince Lev Danilovich, who, according to legend, was related to Laurus, the founder of the monastery.