Peri Monastery is located near the village Sapinta. It is a traditional monastery, founded in the time Dragosesti princes on an old hermits wearing Arghanghel Patron Saint Michael.
Voivod Balcu then and Drag (Dragos Voda grandchildren) have given this monastery land and property so that in 1391 built a stone church. It is high in Stavropegic patriarch jurisdiction over lands and eight churches for 312 years there has been headquartered Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Maramures. During this period Sapinta-Peri served as the residence of many bishops among them Joseph Stoica, later canonized by the Holy Synod in 1992 with the name of Saint Joseph the Confessor in Maramures commemorated on 24 April.
Merry Cemetery, is considered a true open-air museum. Located in the village, the parish church, the museum contains over eight monuments of folk art. Created in 1935, it became unique because artisan Ioan Stan Patras.
Since 1934, the master put an epitaph on many tombs crosses a short poem written in the first person, slightly ironic, thus giving new meaning to death. Each cross is a representation made in vivid colors, which narrates the life of the deceased and even cause death. The creator of this cemetery had humor to compose their own epitaph and carve and paint the cross that now marks his grave.
Currently, the crosses are made by descendants craftsman Stan Patras. Over those 70 years, the cemetery gathered over 800 crosses painted.
House Master - specifically, it is the memorial house of Stan Ioan Patras - a building located about 200 m from the Merry Cemetery, on a side street.
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