Manastir Gradiste

This guide to Gradište Monastery, on a walled hilltop above Buljarica near Budva, follows Strahinja of Budimlje, a priest and fresco painter at work inside the Church of Saint Nicholas around sixteen twenty. It turns on the saint he chose to paint in suffering rather than in triumph, and on why a monastery with gun holes in its walls might want him. Best heard standing inside Saint Nicholas, facing the frescoes.