st. euphrasini and gomeni-polatskaya, the great saint of god, century, and today is the spiritual heart of the belarusian lands. thousands of pilgrims annually flow to this holy place to venerate the shrine of the monastery, offer their prayers to st. euphrosyne, and uraki with her relics. saint abbess, who bore the name predslava in the world, came from an ancient princely family that dates back to saint vladimir iragneda, equal to the apostles, who baptized anastasia. the thief of god was born in the beginning xix century in the family of polovsky prince george and princess sofia. from the life of the saint it is known that she devoted the years of her adolescence to reading the holy scriptures, the creation of the holy fathers. she had such diligence in learning that even her father was surprised. the fame of the wisdom and beauty of predslava spread far beyond the borders of the polotsk land. 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 monaste