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Signature of
KLA on holy
icon, Devič Monastery, 18 June 1999.
Devič (Serbian Cyrillic: Девич) is a Serb Orthodox Abbey in the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo.[1] The monastery is dedicated to St. Joannicius of Devič. It was built at the beginning of the 15th century.
The founder of the monastery is thought to be Despot Đurađ Branković, who had it built in memory of his daughter. In the Turkish census from 1455, the monastery is mentioned as the church of the Theotokos (dedicated to the Entrance the Holy Theotokos Mary into the Temple). During Turkish occupation the monastery was pulled down, but the church and the site with the grave of St. Joannicius was reconstructed, and was painted in 1578.
The monastery was destroyed and burnt down during WWII in 1941, at the hands of Albanian quisling forces, the Prior Damaskin Bošković was killed, and Italian troops disassembled the two big bells and took them away, in 1942. It was rebuilt in 1947.
Devič was a target of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1999 and vandalized with one nun being reportedly raped. The marble tomb of the patron saint St. Joannicius of Devič was desecrated by local Albanian extremists in June 1999. For three days nuns and hieromonk Seraphim were exposed to humilitations and harassments. Since then it has been under the constant protection of French KFOR troops.
It was the target of new attacks by Albanians in the most serious unrest in Kosovo on 18 March 2004 when the nuns were evacuated for safety reasons by Danish KFOR troops. Following that the monastery was pillaged and torched. The Serb Orthodox Church received confirmation of the monastery's plight the following day from UNMIK.
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