The Nicula Monastery 1- Cluj Napoca Editorial Image

Nicula Monastery is an important pilgrimage center in North Transylvania. An ancient Greek-Catholic pilgrimage site, the monastery church has housed throughout the time the famous icon painted in 1681 by the master Luca from Iclod. According to a report drawn up by Austrian officers, the icon would tear down between February 15 and March 12, 1699. In 1713 the governor of Transylvania Sigismund Kornis took the icon to the noble residence at Kornis Castle in the village of Benediugu Dejului, from where it reached the Cluj. Then, the icon returns to Nicula, in the newly built wooden church on the wooded hill on the south side of the village, to house the church smell.