Klostret och helgonet Mor Melke
Denna information har jag hittat om Mor Melke och vill gärna dela med mig det till dig. Det bygger på en viss Gertrud Bells besök och dagboksanteckningar från 1909.
Jag har inte hunnit lägga upp bilden på Mor Melke, letar efter en bra bild.
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Syriac Monasticism in Tur Abdin:
A Present-Day AccounT*
Mark DelCogliano
6. The Monastery of Mor Melke
Unfortunately our group did not have time to visit the Monastery of Mor Melke (Syriac: Dayro d’Mor Melke; Turkish: Mor Melke Manastiri), located two kilometers south of the village of Arkah (Turkish: Harapali). It was founded in the fourth century (supposedly in a.d. 315) and is named for Mor Melke (Malchus), whose tomb is found in the Beth Qadishe. A legend is told concerning Mor Melke that in Constantinople he captured a demon after exorcizing it from the emperor’s daughter and brought it back to his monastery, collared by a mill stone, which now stands at the top of the monastery’s well.72
Since the monastery had been destroyed and rebuilt several times through the centuries, Gertrude Bell found little of architectural interest there when she visited in 1909.73 At the time there were three monks. Mor Melke was badly damaged in 1915 and subsequently, particularly in the Kurdish rebellion of 1925–26, when Mor Melke was used as a Kurdish base. It remained unoccupied until 1955. More recently, the monastery was situated near the no-man’s land between the PKK guerrillas and the Turkish army. Nonetheless, despite a brief period of abandonment, the monastery has been occupied by a monastic presence for most of the twentieth century, and as of November 2001 there were two monks and two nuns, as well as four students, in residence.74
72. Hollerweger 237.
73. See Bell 70–71, and her diary for May 20, 1909, at http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/. Pictures of the monastery from her 1909 visit are available at same website, photos M142 and M144.
74. The details regarding the twentieth-century history of Mor Melke is gleaned from the May and November 2001 reports of Rev. Stephen Griffith at http://sor.cua.edu.
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