upon reaching adulthood, predslava did not want to get married. feeling a burning desire to devote herself entirely to serving the lord, she secretly, at the age of 12 , went to one of the monasteries, in which the abbess... was her dear aunt, the young princess’s intentions to leave the world at first brought the abbess into a thrill of embarrassment, she began to persuade her niece to abandon her plan, but after a conversation with pretslava she was surprised at the intelligence of the fateful woman, her love for god, and realized that the lord himself was calling her relative to such service to god. at such a young age. preslava was tonsured into the monastic rank with the name euphrasinia. having accepted monasticism, the saint cared not only about her spiritual life. she worked hard for the well-being of the people around her. for the sake of building the church of christ. and so she founded monasteries, male and female, which later became centers of enlightenment, but she wanted to see everyone as one soul. with her blessing, in 1161, the ma