Steven Wagner - Stevan Vagner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM , World Music Museum present St. Sava (1174 or 1175 -14. January 1236), a Serbian prince, monk, abbot of the monastery of Studenica, writer, diplomat and the first archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church. He was born as Rastko Nemanjic, the youngest son of Grand Duke Stefan Nemanja, the brother of king Vukan and Stefan.
As a young man got from his father Zahumlje the administration. However, Rastko fled to the Holy Mountain and became a monk at the Russian monastery of Saint Panteleimon, which was given the name Sava. Later, with his father, who in the meantime became a monk and received the name Simeon, built the monastery of Hilandar, the first and only Serbian monastery on Mount Athos.
In Serbia, soon to be a power struggle between Savine brothers. Therefore he returned to Serbia to stop the war. At the same time dealt with enlightenment work, trying to get close to their compatriots basics of religious and secular instruction to 1217. returned to the holy mountain. In 1219 Sava of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at Nicaea won autocephalous Serbian church with a status of an independent archbishopric, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Manuel I appointed him the first Serbian archbishop. He remained Archbishop until 1233, after which it was replaced by his disciple Arsenije. Several times he traveled to Palestine. On the way back from one of the pilgrimage in the Holy Land in 1236. He died in the former Bulgarian capital Veliko Tarnovo. His relics to the monastery Mileseva conveyed his nephew, King Vladislav.
