Sacred Places and Cultural Memory on a Triple Border: Revitalizing Veneration of the Hermit Saints at Osogovo Monastery

This article presents the results of fieldwork at Osogovo Monastery, that took place during the major Christian Orthodox holiday the Dormition of the Mother of God (Mac. Golema Bogorodica), as well as on the day of the patron saint of the monastery, St. Joachim of Osogovo. The article observes and analyzes contemporary rituals and pilgrimage practices related to local religious beliefs and cultural memory in the border area between Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Serbia, as well as the existence of transborder religious tourism.V razpravi so predstavljeni rezultati terenskega dela v samostanu Osogovo (Severna Makedonija) ob velikem krščanskem pravoslavnem prazniku Vnebovzetje (mak. Golema Bogorodica) in na dan zavetnika samostana sv. Joahima Osogovskega. Avtor opazuje in analizira sodobne obrede in romarske prakse, povezane z lokalnimi verskimi prepričanji in kulturnim spominom na obmejnem območju med Bolgarijo, Severno Makedonijo in Srbijo, in čezmejni verski turizem