It is built at the place where the shepherd Petrache Lupu would have seen God.

Petrache Lupu was a deaf and mute shepherd that convinced hundreds of thousands of pilgrims that God appeared to him.

[1] The monastery was closed in the communist period and opened after 1989.

[2] In 2019 the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth happened at the Monastery with over 4,000 young people.

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