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'''Mănăstirea lui Martie''' a fost o mare [[mănăstire]] creștină fondată la est de [[Ierusalim]], de pe dealurile Iudeei. A fost întemeiată în secolul al V-lea și poartă numele patriarhului [[Martirie al Ierusalimului]], care probabil a fost inițiatorul și ctitorul acesteia. După invaziile arabe din anii 630, mănăstirea a fost abandonată.

The founder of the monastery, Martyrius, was born in Cappadocia. In the year 457, he entered the Monastery of Euthymius east of Jerusalem. Finding the monastery crowded and looking to live as a [[hermit]], Martyrius moved to a near by cave. Over the next two centuries, Martyrius' cave grew to be a major monastic center, the largest of its kind, in the Judean desert before it was abandoned in the mid seventh century after the Arab conquests in the Holy Land. During its active era, the monastery, one of many in the area, housed hundreds of monks.

The archeological remains of Patr. Martyrius' monastery were found in the early 1980s during the building of the new town of Ma'ale Adumim located in the West Bank. On the top of a hill, a monastery compound was found of about 2.5 acres, surrounded by walls. In addition to the building complex, the monastery included a system for storing water through channels that collected and directed rainwater to a number of cisterns cut into rock.

*en: [[Wikipedia: Monastery_of_Martyrius]]

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