Bulgarian clergyman and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure.
1722 CE
to 1773 CE
Saint Paisius of Hilendar or Paìsiy Hilendàrski (1722–1773) is a Bulgarian clergyman and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure.
He is most famous for being the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history after the work of Petar Bogdan Bakshev from 1667, "History of Bulgaria".
Most Bulgarians are taught that he was the forefather of the Bulgarian National Revival