Peri Monastery is located near the village Sapanta. It is a traditional monastery, founded in the time of the princes Dragosesti wearing an old hermitages dedicated to St. Michael Arghanghel.
Balcu prince then and Drag (Dragos Voda's grandchildren) have given this monastery land and property so that in 1391 built a stone church. It is high in Stavropegic patriarchal jurisdiction over churches in eight provinces and over 312 years there has been headquartered Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Maramures. During this period Sapanta-Peri served as the residence of many bishops among them Joseph Stoica, later canonized by the Holy Synod in 1992 under the name of St. Joseph of Maramures Confessor commemorated on 24 April.
-Merry Cemetery is considered a true open-air museum. Located in the center of the village, the parish church, the museum comprises over eight monuments of folk art. Created in 1935, it became unique because John craftsman Stan Patras.
Since 1934, each master has an epitaph on grave crosses, a short poem written in the first person, slightly ironic, thus giving new meaning to death. Each cross is a representation made in vivid colors, which narrates deceased life and even cause death. The creator of this cemetery had to humor and composed his own epitaph and carve and paint the cross now marks his grave.
Currently, the crosses are made by master followers Ion Stan Patras. Over those 70 years, the cemetery gathered over 800 crosses painted.
Master house-that is, it is a memorial house of Stan Ioan Patras - a building located about 200 m from the Merry Cemetery, on a side street.
It consists of a house with two rooms and a courtyard in which sculpture and painting workshop of the craftsman, and crosses made of it.
In the museum you can admire the costumes specific to the Sapanta, handicrafts (rugs, carpets, pots of clay, icons, tabouri on wood made Ioan Stan Patras), and pictures of his family.
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