The Monastery Gkelati is a large monastic complex near Kutaisi , Imereti , in western Georgia . The Monastery Gkelatihas three churches. The Church of the Virgin founded by the King of Georgia David IV in 1106, and the churches of St. George and St. Nicholas (13th century). The Monastery Gkelati was for a long time one of the main spiritual and cultural centers of Georgia. Had Spiritual Academy which employed some of the most famous Georgian scholars , philosophers and theologians, many of whom were already active and excel in various orthodox monasteries and other centers abroad, among which was the Pandidakterion Magnaura in Istanbul. Among the famous scholars of the Academy Gkelati was the Neoplatonist philosopher Ioane Petritsi and the great monk and ecclesiastical writer Arsen Ikaltoeli . Given the importance of the research project that took place in the Spiritual Academy Gkelati , the contemporaries of thecalled New Greece and The second Mt Athos . Monastery Gkelati, Georgia. The Monastery Gkelati saved a large number of manuscripts and frescoes dating from the 12th until the 17th century. In 1994, the monastery was recognized UNESCO World Heritage of UNESCO, and in 2008, was included in the list of 100 heritage sites most at risk of the Global Fund for Monuments . In November 1923, the Monastery Gkelati closed by the Bolsheviks and Relics desecrated or destroyed or katachoniastikan in museum basements and warehouses. Since December 2005, any keimiliakoi treasures found in basements and warehouses museums Georgia attributed to Georgian Orthodox Church, which usually replaces the place from which they come. Among keimiliakous treasures were found and attributed and is rarely below image that incorporates the relics of saints. The remains bear chryserpargyra plates with Greek inscriptions Byzantine type and probably derived from Byzantine source. s image bears the following relics: Part of the skull of St. George the Martyr Part of the skull (particularly facial bones) St. Theodore Tyron Small portion of the skull of St. Demetrios the Great Martyr Bones: St. Nicholas, St. John Chrysostom, Thomas the Apostle, St. Theodore the marshal, St. Sampson, St. Benedict, St. Theoktistos and St. Emilian. /
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