| Thanks to Petro Ratensky or Ratnensky,Петро Ратенський (Ратненський),the famous icon painter and Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus. In 1260 Petro (Petr, Peter) was born in the village Ratne, Volhyn or Volhynia (Galicia-Volhynia,West Ukraine) in the family of pious Fedir and Evpraksia. But Historian VR Vavryk suggests that Peter was born in the village Verhrati Rava-Ruska District (Lviv region) during the reign of Danylo Halytsky and Profesor Holubynsky suggests that Metropolitan Peter could be born in wealthy parents in Lviv or Belhz. In 1272 Peter entered the monastery near Belz (Lviv Region). Later, with the blessing of his abbot, he departed in the cozy woods and began to create his monastery - the church of St. Saviour. So St. Peter became abbot of Ratensky (Novodvorsky) monastery (near the modern village Dvirtsi, the river Rata). Peter painted icons and gave them as a gift. After the death of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus Maxim in 1305 Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Tver, wanted to put his candidate on the metropolitan department who dared lie to gain a rank . That was a violation of the old traditions, because since the adoption of Christianity in Kyivan Rus there was only one Ruthenian Metropolis in Kyiv. Then Galician prince took steps to establish a single metropolis in Galicia or Halychyna. He sent Abbot Peter to Athanasius Patriarch of Constantinople. Patriarch put him on Metropolitan, but not in Galician,in order to avoid provocation and strife, but ... |
