The Turks several times carried out reprisals against the monks of Rača for engaging in educational activities and promoting Serbian culture, copying church manuscripts and books.
From Szentendre, Jerotej Račanin settled at Velika Remeta, a cultural center of the Serbs in the 16th and the 17th centuries, and the home of a manuscript and book copying and illuminating school.
During the last years of the seventeenth century, Jerotej Račanin first settled in Dunaföldvár, a town in Tolna County, Hungary, with a mixed population of Hungarians and Serbs at the time.
It was there that he became motivated by his own transcript of a travelogue from 1698 written by Lavrentije, an abbot of the Serbian Hilandar Monastery, who travelled to Jerusalem in the third decade of the seventeenth century.
Some of these works are lavishly decorated, like the travelogue of Gavrilo Tadić, who visited the Holy Places in 1661, containing 34 colour miniatures depicting the most important temples.