According to old documents, we find that Calaraseuca monastery, first century XVIII century, was a monastery of St. Sava monastery, dedicated to St. grave. Calaraseuca name and comes from the first village of the same name nearby. At first, the hermitage had a small church, wooden, very modest, built not for a long time, but to have a place to officiate at divine services. In 1780 the old church could no longer be used as Mark Donici Hagi of Movilau, begin construction of a church and steeple, which in 1718, a festival called "Assumption."
In 1813, the hermitage monastery was decreed, and that year leased lands convent and she passed under the control of the Eparchy of Chisinau, without having any lăgătură with the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. In that period STEERING Calaraseuca monastery was entrusted only to the abbots of Russian origin. By 1853, begin construction of the two churches, Major General Nicolae Al. Circassian, dedicated to St. Mitrofan of Voronezh in Russia.
In 1916 the monks go to other monasteries, and nuns are brought Calaraseuca Virov refugees in the monastery, Russian Poland (located at the time of the Austro-German occupation). On June 8, 1961 communist authorities ordered the hospital to transform the monastery mentally disabled children, nuns and sisters were forcibly removed from the territory.
The church was converted into a club winter and summer in the hospital warehouse. Already in 1989, the hospital will not turn on, and the territory was placed into a farm in the village, where they began to live people coming from elsewhere. Since 1990, the territory is left in these people.
On 3 May 1991, nuns from the monastery Calaraseuca was reopened .
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