The Mileseva Monastery, one of the greatest shrines that played an invaluable role in the cultural, spiritual, and national history of our people, is known to Serbs as the home of the famous fresco on which the White Angel is located.
King Stefan Vladislav built this shrine as a monastery-mausoleum between 1234 and 1235, and the year that inscribed Milesev in the most important pages of Serbian history was 1237, when the Serbian ruler transferred the body of his uncle, Saint Sava, from Trnovo.
The relics of Archbishop Sava remained "resting" in the monastery peace until 1595 when the Turks burned them in Belgrade on the orders of Sinan Pasha. However, some traces can never be erased - so in this monastery even today there is a fresco that is considered to most realistically depict this saint.
The two words that we inevitably associate with the Mileseva Monastery are the White Angel.
This masterpiece of medieval art belongs to the number of the most beautiful and most important European painting achievements, and it appeared in the vaults of the Mileševo monastery in the 13th century.
The fresco, with its beauty and perfect composition, has been impressing lovers of painting and iconography for decades, and not without reason. The white angel not only brings complete harmony, exudes infinite faith and hope, and conveys the most important message - the message of love and peace, but is also painted so that he looks the visitor directly in the eye no matter from which angle you look at him.
The white angel is part of the composition "Myrrh-bearers at Christ's tomb", and the fresco depicts the archangel Gabriel with outstretched wings, dressed in a white chiton sitting on a large stone and pointing to the tomb of Christ with a frightened woman, in fact at that moment the place of his resurrection.
The White Angel is the messenger of the eternal truth about Christ's resurrection, and thus this fresco has taken root in the Serbian people as a synonym for hope, salvation, and miracles.
This fresco was hidden from the public eye until the 20th century. Namely, in the 16th century, another fresco was painted over it, and the White Angel appeared almost 400 years later, during the restoration of the monastery.
That the White Angel is truly a Serbian treasure that the whole world admires with undiminished attention is evidenced by the fact that it was chosen as the most important work of European art, but also a symbol of all peace.
This fresco, as the embodiment of the most important Christian trinity, love, faith, and hope, was inscribed in modern history in 1963. Namely, the first satellite transmission of the video signal between the Old Continent and America contained a Milesevski fresco among the shots, as a special greeting to us Europeans to those on the other side of the world.
And when the first satellite signal in the universe was sent from Europe, a "package of human achievements" was sent - these were images of man's conquest of the Moon, the Great Wall of China, and the White Angel ...
It was believed that, if there were rational beings in the universe at all, they would interpret the image of the White Angel as a message of love and understanding.
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