Saint Mary" Monastery
Museum

The "Saint Mary" Monastery's Museum has been founded after 1990 by the nun-abbot Semfora Gafton and the regretted historian Adrian Radulescu. His Beatitude Patriarch Teoctist himself has given the blessing to arrange the Monastery's Museum.

The earth of Dobrogea region is a "bearing testimony" as each and every piece of land harbours martyr's graves, ecclesiastical objects and stones from the walls of the halidoms where holy services were held at the beginning of the Christianity in our country. Historical evidence, both linguistical and archaelogical, are still springing out from the land that has been shed with blood or from some bygone libraries shelves.

One can find in the Museum authentical samples, Christian evidence dating back between the 4th and 6th centuries A.C. (After Christ), a capitol from a basilica in Callatis (Mangalia town today), an wood cover of a table and a basilica pillar discovered in Tomis (Constanta town today).

The Museum also accommodates priest vestments from the 18th century, ecclesiastical objects, icons painted on wood and on wood framed in brass dating the same century. One's attention may be drawn by a miniature sculpture carved in olive wood dating from the 19th century, representing Saints George and Dimitrios.

Roman-Byzantine Capitel dicovered in Constanta 5th-6th century	Priest vestments from the 18th century
Saints George and Dimitrios, miniature sculpture carved in olive wood in the 19th century	Ecclesiastical objects