Monahinja Jefimija

THE MONASTERY ON BUSINESS OF STATE. TO CONDUCT DIPLOMATIC CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TURKS, THE NUN EUPHEMIA WAS TO BE FOUND IN HER TRAIN, FOR THE QUEEN ESTEEMED HER AS „А PILLAR AND SUPPORT", FOR SHE WAS „FULL WISE IN MANY MATTERS AND KINDS OF LEARNING".

IN THE SECLUSION AND SILENCE OF THE MONASTERY, PLUNGED IN GRIEF FOR THE TRAGEDY WHICH HAD OVERWHELMED THE SERBIAN PEOPLE, EUPHEMIA NOT ONLY COMPOSED THIS TOUCHING LAUD TO THE MARTYR PRINCE, BUT WITH INFINITE PATIENCE AND GREAT DELICACY OF TASTE SHE EMBROIDERED ITS MEEK AND SORROWFUL PHRASES ON A PALL FOR THE PRINCE’S COFFIN, WHICH WAS AT FIRST KEPT IN THE MONASTERY HE HAD FOUNDED AT RAVANICA ON THE MORAVA, AND AFTERWARDS, AT THE END OF THE XVII-TH CENTURY, TRANSFERRED, TOGETHER WITH THE PALL. TO THE MONASTERY OF VRDNIK, NOW CALLED RAVANICA, IN THE FRU§KA GORA, WHERE IT IS STILL TO BE SEEN.

THE LAUD TO PRINCE LAZAR BY THE NUN EUPHEMIA IS CONSIDERED, FROM AN ARTISTIC STANDPOINT. TO BE THE FINEST EXAMPLE OF ITS