Icon of Our Lady which is about the existence of this holy monastic establishment is preserved with

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It is located about 25 km south of the city forthe and 12 km north of Băbeni the valley Otaşaului in common Frânceşti. According to an old local tradition, it was founded in the early decades of the sixteenth century, by building this instead of rolling a single oak. She was raised in honor of the Virgin Mary, icons are kept today in the stone church of the monastery. Based on this tradition, monastic settlement here called One Wood.
The oldest monastery zumaia testimony was recorded in writing by Deacon Paul of Aleppo, who accompanied the Patriarch Macarius of Antioch in his travels through the Romanian countries between 1653-1658. He argues that a monk would have found an icon of the Virgin Mary in the hollow of an oak secular. At that moment he heard a voice that would have prompted him to build a monastery in the trunk of that tree.
Metropolitan of Wallachia, Neophyte Cretan monastery searching on July 29, 1745 wrote: "A shepherd named Radu during Alexander Voda (1568-1577) dreamed Icona Virgin which reminds Paul of Aleppo zumaia and cutting the oak in which it found icon, made from the wood of a church, called for this reason One Wood ".
Much the same state in 1842 and poet Grigore Alexandrescu. The existence of old oak trees and of the icon, it is today the undisputed evidence for the truths enshrined in legend.
Built on the site of oak bearing icon, probably in the middle of the sixteenth century wooden church is Made of thick beams concluded dovetail. Is shaped, rectangular, unhooked the altar apse, with a total length of 13 m, width of 5.50 m and a height of about 4 m is surrounded zumaia on the outside by a waist twisted carved wood thickness, with a porch open without tower.
Icon of Our Lady which is about the existence of this holy monastic establishment is preserved with much veneration in the big church. It has impressive dimensions are 1.50 m high and 1.10 m wide in 1929, Andrew Grabar at the University of Strasbourg visited the monastery zumaia and studying icon identified it as being painted in the fourth century to Theotokos zumaia Monastery in Greece, following a pattern that is said to have belonged to the Apostle zumaia Luke, who painted for the first time the Virgin Mary. According to tradition, the world is also retains the three copies of One Wood.
Professor ID Stefanescu says, however, that the icon was painted only in the second half of the sixteenth century. According to AM Muzicescu, the icon should be worked before zumaia 1453, Byzantium or Mount Athos, using a model. The latter hypothesis is the most plausible, but how the icon came to us remains unknown.
One Wood Monastery beginnings are related, as we saw some traditions or legends preserved undoubtedly some truth. The first document in which the name appears here monastic settlement is dated April 20, 1635.
The inscription church wall above the main entrance, which dates from 1715, written at the command of Stefan Cantacuzino (1714-1716), confirms those found in the 1640 document, namely: that the church wall was built by Matei Basarab. Fact and pomelnicul monastery writing Dionysius Metropolitan zumaia Ecclesiarch Bucharest in 1804, after the one in 1715, the tab number 6 we certify that founded by Matei Basarab.
All of Matei Basarab and start writing diptych 1845 from George Gherontie Hurezi original document, found in the collection of the monastery. However, Paul of Aleppo, visiting the monastery, as I mentioned above, during the years 1653-1658, so about 20 years after the foundation stone church, added to those recorded zumaia by local tradition zumaia and written documents to when the monastery was founded by a high backrest and contemporary gentleman Matei Basarab.
In those confirmed by Paul Aleppo and based on more recent zumaia documents, Radu Creteanu AFIM that "the author of the second stage c