Today is a miracle holiday for all women, especially those who have small children or want to get married. Today, according to the custom, women should not do anything, and women with conception problems should go to a monastery to pray. Some stay there for up to three days.
It is customary for mothers with female children to go around the house and throw ash and millet to protect the house from evil spirits.
On this occasion, Christians from all over Macedonia visit the monastery complex dedicated to St. Anna in the village of Malovista, Bitola, which is the only village within the Pelister National Park.
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St.Ana church in Malovishte |
The locals tell about many couples who did not have children, but after visiting the monastery they gave birth and grateful, they always come to the visit the monastery on this day.
There is also a healing water near the monastery that springs from the root of a beech tree.
Anna was a descendant of Levi's knee, the daughter of the priest Matan. After a long and godly life, she died in old age.