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Monastery Complex of St. Leontius

The monastery complex St. Leontius is located in the village of Vodocha, 4 km east of Strumica. Three churches (eastern, western and medial) were discovered on the site, and three phases of the fresco painting of their interiors, dining rooms, commercial buildings, and the two baths and the multilayered Christian necropolis where burials took place continuously from the 14th to the 20th century. The first archaeological excavations at this site were performed by Vasil Lahtov in the period 1961-1962. In 1973/74, Petar Miljkovic-Pepek performed research on the basis of which he prepared a project for the conservation and restoration of the church. The most extensive excavations, mostly directed at the Vodocha necropolis, were performed by the archaeologist Jovan Ananiev in the period from 1979 to 2003, where approximately 1,000 graves were discovered. From the period of Early Christianity, basic basilica's parts have been preserved, parts with 5th and 6th century marble decorative art. Afterwards, in the 9th century, the eastern, three domed Episcopal church was built. As an episocopal church, it was mentioned in 1018 Basil II's Declaration, after the fall of Samoil's state. Today, the altar apse, the proskomedia and the sacristy are preserved. The original iconostasis was marble, and the floor was covered with marble plates, too. The demolition of the church was connected to the fall of Samoil's state and the fall of Strumica under Byzantine rule in 1018. In the period from 1018 to 1037, the small cruciform western dome church of the Holy Mother of God Eleusa and of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple was built. The medial dome church of the Vodoche complex, built at the beginning of the 12th century, was dedicated to St. Leontius, a martyr of the city of Tripoli in the district of Phoenicia. The church was the episcopal seat from which the synthronon of the altar apse was preserved and the narthex of the west. It had open porches on the south side. The fresco painting of the interior of the complex of Vodocha churches was done in three different centuries: the 10th century, the 11th century and the 12th century. Apart from the fragmentary preservation, the high artistic qualities of the painted representations of the saints are obvious. The fresco painting of the western Vodocha Church of the Holy Mother of God Eleusa and of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple was built; depict the life and childhood of Saint Mary, as well as the cycle of church holidays. Also, the figures of St. Isavrios and St. Euplos in full growth were painted, in the period of 1018-1037. The interior of the medial Vodocha Church of St. Leontius was fresco painted, too, and the preserved fragmented remains in the lunette above the apse with the representation of Saint Mary indicates the stylistic and the artistic features of the 12th century Byzantine painting.

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