“Stephen the Great” Research and Documentation Centre

Putna Colloquia, 29th Edition

August 30 – September 3, 2023

Embroideries and Fabrics

The volume presents Putna Monastery's Byzantine embroidery collection, which is one of the most precious of its kind from South-Eastern Europe.

The Journal of Stephen the Great Centre

The “Annals of Putna” journal focuses on the epoch of Stephen the Great and on the history of Putna Monastery and the history of other monasteries from Bukovina.

A History of Stephen the Great

The volume, which combines scientific rigor with heartfelt reverence, is a classic for the history of Holy Stephen the Great.

Saint Stephen the Great

The book comprises some of the most popular legends about Saint Stephen the Great.

Research and Documentation Centre

“Stephen the Great” Research and Documentation Centre was established at the Holy Putna Monastery on the 2nd of January, 2005, with the blessing of His Eminence Pimen, Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți.
The scientific events organized at Putna Monastery during “Holy Stephen the Great 500” – 2004 commemorative year revealed the need for a structure meant to foster knowledge and research of our past.

Excerpts

from our publications

Fragment din Dragomirna Monastery. The Memories of a Place of Remembrance

Hit by armies, robbed by foreign and domestic thieves, threatened by foreign and indigenous persecutors, Dragomirna – with all that she stands for – remains a place of remembrance. It expresses and brilliantly proclaims the victory of the soul and spirit, of love for beauty and harmony, of the sacrificial thought through which all of the world unites and ascends.

Dragomirna Monastery. The Memories of a Place of Remembrance

Fragment din Treasury of Putna Monastery. Embroideries and Fabrics

The masters who worked in the Putna workshop perfectly mastered the secrets of embroidery and were able to produce original pieces. The tomb cover of Maria Asanina Palaiologina, the consort of Stephen the Great, is a unique piece in the whole post-Byzantine world. Decorated with Byzantine monograms and symbols, it is a lively expression of what was Moldavia during the time of Stephen the Great: a "Byzantium after Byzantium”.

Treasury of Putna Monastery. Embroideries and Fabrics

Fragment din Holy Putna Monastery (illustrated monography)

Just as the Holy Voivode Stephen the Great has a special place in the heavens of the Romanian soul, "his beloved monastery” has a special duty so that, through prayer and ascetic deeds, the will of God may be fulfilled with our nation: ORTHODOXY AND THE ROMANIAN SPIRIT.

And the path on which it takes us is written into the message inscribed on the charter borne by the hands of our Glorious Voivode in his icon, calling us into the eternity of divine love: "Above our ease lies the holy duty to defend the being and independence of our country.”

Holy Putna Monastery (illustrated monography)

“Mitropolit Iacov Putneanul” Publishing House

PUBLICATIONS

Coperta cărții „Holy Putna Monastery (illustrated monography)”

Coperta cărții „Treasury of Putna Monastery. Embroideries and Fabrics”

Coperta cărții „Dragomirna Monastery. The Memories of a Place of Remembrance”

Coperta cărții „Princeps omni laude maior. A History of Stephen the Great”

Coperta cărții „Saint Stephen the Great. Portrait from the Legends”

Coperta cărții „Saint Stephen the Great. Portrait from History”

Coperta cărții „Archaeological Investigations at the Putna Monastery (II)”

Coperta cărții „Words about Stephen the Great (II)”

Annals of Putna

Journal

“Annals of Putna” is the only scientific journal which focuses on the epoch of Stephen the Great and the history of Putna Monastery.
It was created to stimulate and focus the historians’ efforts on these two main topics of research. Its scientific span was subsequently enlarged to include the history of other monasteries from Bukovina.

Since 2004, the “Holy Stephen the Great 500” commemorative year, Putna Monastery has co-organized several scientific international seminars on our holy ancestor, his epoch and heritage, and the history of the first monastery that he founded.