ЗА ЕДНО КОЧАНСКО СВЕШТЕНИЧКО СЕМЕЈСТВО (СВЕШТЕНИТЕ ПРЕДМЕТИ КАКО ИЗВОР ЗА ИНФОРМАЦИИ
OF ONE CLERICAL FAMILY FROM KOCHANI (CLERICAL ITEMS AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION)

Summary/Abstract: Church situations and clergy throughout history have been closely linked to current political developments and to secular authority, so items used by priests very often, besides spiritual ones, carried a great deal of information of everyday occurrences. Privately preserved collections and archives offer an interesting source of information about a particular settlement. The author of the article gives a hypothetical image of a segment of daily life in Kochani from 1900 onwards, using materials from one clerical family from Kochani as a source of information. This article is mostly based on handwritten notes and records by the oldest priests in the Popovtsi family: Gyorgi Kotsev Stojanov and his son Dimitar Pop Gyorgiev. Although the family is known in the city as “Popovtsi” to this day, some of the family members carry the surname Kochevi and the others Pop Gyorgievi. 199 The objects that are preserved as an inheritance in the Popovtsi family from their ancestral priests are selected in several categories: 1. Items used for the service (table crosses, church vessels); 2. Liturgical books; 3. Records and photographs, and 4. Personal items (counters, clocks), as a symbol of certain social status in society. On this occasion, we publicly thank the great-grandson named after his grandfather Dimitar Pop Gyorgiev and his wife Daniela Pop Gyorgieva for the opportunity to have an insight in the personal belongings of their ancestors.

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