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Rafailo Banatski is an Orthodox Serbian saint.
He lived in the 16th- and 17th-century. As a Hilandar monk[1] he was sent by obedience to the Hilandar metochion (church estate) in Banat.
Arriving in Banat, Raphael built a hut of reed, on the site where the Church of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God is now located, in the part of today's Zrenjanin known as Gradnulica. That place has been called "Manastir" since ancient times.
Historical data
[edit]Venerable Raphael of Banat is traditionally a Serb from Banat.[2] Zrenjanin abbot Miloš Popović believed that Raphael came from the area and that he was first a monk in the nearby monastery Drenovac Monastery (Bečkerek).[3] He left Banat for Mount Athos and became an ascetic in the Hilandar Monastery. In his old age, he returned to his native land by obedience, and settled in the gate of the Bečkerek Vavedenjska Church in the village of Gradna ulica. He could not return to the Drenovac Monastery, because it had died out and been completely destroyed in the meantime. In 1666, there was also a "monastery" (the monastery of the Hilandar monastery) with two nuns near the Vavedenj temple. Former monks from Drenovac moved there around 1700. At that place, with a "home" consisting of two monastic cells, the monk Raphael later lived and died.
Raphael of Banat was allegedly first settled in the Hilandar monastery called Bakaboš,[4] which was located in the Banat kadiluk, southeast of Bečkerek. Later, he moved to the village of Gradna ulica near the church, where he practiced asceticism in a reed hut in the gate. There he practiced healing for believers who came to him seeking a cure.
It is not known exactly when the elder Raphael died, but his grave has been preserved, on which a hexagonal chapel was built, next to the altar of the church dedicated to the Presentation of the Most Holy Theotokos. The chapel, dedicated to the Venerable Raphael of Banat - Chilandar, is older than the church, which was built in 1826 on the foundations of an older church.
An icon of Saint Raphael has also been preserved, which is today kept in the Chilandar Monastery. On the back of the icon is the inscription: “This Saint Raphael, a Serb by birth, a priest-monk from Chilandar, was sent on a journey to the monastery of Banat, and there he appeared, and God glorified him by working miracles from his venerable relics to those who come to him with faith.”
Cult
[edit]Believers used to come to the chapel built on the south side next to the Vavedenj Temple in the Gradnulica quarter of Zrenjanin. The sick would spend the night there, and Raphael's prayer would be read to them for healing. According to tradition, he was widely known during his lifetime, a hermit and healer, and after his death, the saint's relics became miraculous. Many believers came to the tomb of the Venerable Raphael, seeking help and bringing many votive (votive) gifts to his tomb.
In the Banat village of Hajdučica, in 1985, Bishop Amfilohije Radović began building the Orthodox monastery of St. Raphael.[5] The new monastery in Banat is dedicated to Raphael of Banat. This was a consequence of the canonization of the Venerable Raphael of Banat two decades earlier. The parish church in Hajdučica dedicated to St. Archangel Michael, built in 1939 as an endowment of the landowner Olga Janković (daughter of Lazar Dunđerski), was taken as the place of worship for the new monastery, at that location.
There is a publishing library "Venerable Raphael of Banat" in Vršac. In the 1990s, the "Spiritual Center Venerable Raphael of Banat" was opened in Zrenjanin at the Assumption Church, with a reading room and a club, where cultural and spiritual activities were held. There, in the building of the Church Municipality, there was a gathering place for writers, artists, and believers. A male singing society of the same name was also formed there.
The monk Raphael of Chilandar was canonized as a saint by the decision of the Holy Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1965. The Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates him today on 16/August 29, under the name Venerable Raphael of Banat.
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Justin Popović: "Lives of the Saints", Valjevo 1976.
- ^ "Serbian Orthodox Church in the Past and Present", Belgrade 1966.
- ^ Miloš Popović: "Religious and Church Life of Serbs in Banat", Zrenjanin 2001.
- ^ Nikola Šlajh: "Monograph of the Town of Velikog Bečkerek", Zrenjanin 2018.
- ^ Prota Miloš Popović: "Religious and Church Life of the Serbs in Banat", Zrenjanin 2001.