St. Joakim Osogovski or Osogovo Monastery – a monastery about 3 km northeast of Kriva Palanka, in the arms of the oak forest of the Osogovo Mountains, is dedicated to the hermit and miracle worker St. Joakim Osogovski.
It was founded in the 12th century, also known by the name Sarandapore. It was in these areas at the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century that the hermit St. Joakim Osogovski. Then the famous St. John of Rila, St. Prokhor Pchinski and St. Gavril Lesnovski.
In the immediate vicinity of Kriva Palanka (2 km from the center) is the famous Macedonian monastery of Saint Joakim Osogovski, which is 1003 years old and is a well-known and quite visited tourist attraction. Every year on August 28, the traditional celebration of the religious holiday of the Holy Mother of God is held in the monastery, which is attended by more than 20,000 people from the city, the surrounding area and other cities of the country.
The history of the monastery of St. Joakim Osogovski begins with the arrival of the saint in the area of Osogovieto and his holy mission of asceticism. One of the most authentic traditions of Krivopalanje, which has been present in the collective memory for more than nine centuries, knows about the presence of the Normans, who entered Macedonia in the early eighties of the XI century. From those armies St. Joakim Osogovski was disturbed at his asceticism in the village of Gradec. That was the reason for him to choose a new place to venture. For this purpose, he chose the cave in the Babin Dol area, in close proximity to the current location of the monastery of St. Joakim Osogovski. Although there are no written documents about the church heritage and organization in Kriva Palanka region for the period before the arrival of St. Joakim, the numerous archaeological sites in which more than fifteen are mentioned under the name of churches and monasteries support the assumption that St. Joachim came to an environment with a developed church-spiritual life.
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