Name: Holy Spirit Orthodox Monastery
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The monastery arose at about the same time as the city of Jēkabpils, then Jacob's Town, as evidenced by 19th-century historical sources describing the history of the city and the monastery dating back to 1670–1675. year. [2] The founder of the monastery is considered to be the Russian merchant Ratkevich, who witnessed the miraculous healing of a mentally ill man in St. George's Church in Jacob's Town in front of the icon of the Mother of God. The desire to build a new church, more suited to the holy icon, was fueled by a great feeling of reverence for the miraculous icon, which was later realized in cooperation with the superior of the monastery, who received a free donation of the forest from Duke James. The new church was named in honor of the Holy Spirit. When Tirgon Ratkevich built a church in which the icon of Our Lady of Jacobstadt was installed, and when a wall fence was erected around the church, the territory of the monastery was created, so that at the end of the century the community of monks was formed here. century and received the name of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit Monastery remained intact during the Northern War, several fires in the Jacobstadt in 1769 and 1773, but its condition deteriorated with the increasing conversion of the Orthodox to the Uniate Church, which is a branch of Catholicism. The situation improved after 1772, when Latgali was annexed to Russia. At the beginning of the monastic activity, Belarusian monks from Polotsk and Vitebsk served here, in 1795 the monastery itself was under the spiritual authority of Polotsk. Under the auspices of the monastery there was an Orthodox school, the monastery was engaged in charitable work.[2] Since 1795 In 1799 Kurzeme was annexed to Russia and transformed into Kurzeme Governorate. However, since the monastery was located on the territory of Kurzeme Governorate, in 1799 it became part of Russia. In 1803 the monastery came under the spiritual authority of Pskov, but in 1803 In 2008 the monastery again moved to the Mogilev Metropolis under spiritual submission. Nothing is known in detail about the life of the monastery itself, neither about the order of the monastery, nor about the number of monastic brethren. The revival of the monastery began, but was interrupted in 1812 by the Patriotic War,[3] when Franco-Prussian troops led by Napoleon's relative Marshal Macdonald established their headquarters in Jakobstadt. The troops built stables and barracks in the churches of the Holy Spirit Monastery and plundered both the monastery and the city itself.

Source: lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%93kabpils_Sv%C4%93t%C4%81_Gara_klosteris

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