The Rila Monastery has attracted a record-high number of visitors in 2017. The number of tourists and pilgrims to Bulgaria’s biggest monastery is expected to exceed 1 million by the end of the year, Rila Monastery’s abbot Evlogy, bishop of Adrianopole,..
In the past, hundreds of pilgrims crossed on foot the magnificent Rila Mountain along a trail in a bid to reach Rila Monastery and pay homage to the remains of St. John (Ivan) of Rila the Wonder Worker, founder of the monastery in 10 c. Today the..
Today marks 1070 years since the assumption of St. Ivan of Rila, the heavenly guardian of the Bulgarian people. St. Ivan of Rila was born in 876 in the village of Skrino and became a monk as a teenager living as a hermit in Mount Rila, Western Bulgaria...
