White Angel is a detail of a world famous fresco

Fresco

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 from the Mileševa monastery

Mileševa monastery

Mileševa is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Prijepolje, in southwest Serbia. It was founded by King Vladislav, in the years between 1234 and 1236...

 circa 1230 AD in Serbia

Serbia

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, Mironosnice na Hristovom grobu (Myrrhbearers

Myrrhbearers

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 on Christ's Grave). It is also one of the most famous frescoes in Serbian culture

Serbian culture

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. It depicts an angel

Angel

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 sitting in front of the tomb of Christ

Jesus

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. This monastery belongs to a Latin period in Byzantine art

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.

The first satellite broadcast

Satellite television

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 in 1963 between Europe and North America sent a picture of White Angel from Mileševa in first broadcasting frames to salute American people from Europeans. Later the same signal was transmitted to space to meet eventual extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life

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 forms. It once again contained the White Angel, as it has been recognized world wide as a true and unique message of overall peace.

See also

• Mileševa
• Serbian monasteries
  Serbian monasteries
  Serb Orthodox monasteries are found throughout Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Canada and the United States. This foundation of monasteries followed the forming of the first semi-independent Serbian states starting in the 10th century...
  
  
• Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance
  Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Serbia)
  Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance are the monuments in the Republic of Serbia that have the highest level of the State protection, and some of them are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites....
  
  
• Tourism in Serbia
  Tourism in Serbia
  Serbia stretches across two geographic and cultural regions of Europe: Central Europe and Southeast Europe. This boundary splits Serbia roughly in a ratio of 1:2 alongside the Danube and Sava rivers. The northern parts of the country are Central-European lowlands while the southern and central...