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Sázava Monastery

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Zámecká 72, 285 06 Sázava, Czechia

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The Sázava Monastery is a Benedictine abbey and a monastery established by Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia near Prague around 1032.

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History

The foundation of the monastery was initiated by Procopius of Sázava, a Czech hermit who was in 1203 canonized as saint. The monastery was an important center of Old Church Slavonic literature until 1097.

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Sázava Monastery Wikipedia