Опросна писма пећких патријарха

Abstract

A specific quality of the practice of penance of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the 17th and 18th centuries are charters of remission issued by the patriarchs of Pee. The following samples are known: the charter of remission of Patriarch Maksim dating from 1669 (Supplement No. 1), of Patriarch Arsenije III Carnojevic from around 1700 (Supplement No. 2), of Patriarch Mojsije Rajovic from 1716, Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanovié Sakabenta from 1732 (Supplement No. 3), and Patriarch Atanasije II from 1747. Along with these charters of remission, similar documents were recorded issued by Jerusalem's patriarchs to individual Serbs by mediation of travelling monks who collected charity in Serbian lands, or believers themselves obtained them on their pilgrimage to the East.