Stazione monastica sull'isolotto Maisan in Dalmatia meridionale

The article deals with the architectural complex on the islet of Majsan, where archaeological excavations yielded remains of Roman settlement. However, emphasize is placed on Christian amenities and various findings dating from the 4th to the 10th c. Seeing that the spatial organization of the complex was subordinated to a grave placed in a specially arranged room - an oratorium (?) - that in the second phase was rebuilt as a small memoria, with dome on pillars, we can assume that the grave was in fact a tomb of a distinguished person from the first centuries of Christianity. We are left with an open question whether Majsan should be considered a seat of a monastic community? There is no doubt that the islet, situated far from the urbanized area, was inhabited by a small Christian community committed to ascetic life. Although this isolated community established forms of life similar to those mentioned in the writings of St. Jerome, the fact that its life was centred on the veneration of a grave makes it exceptional, with no known analogies. It is impossible to conclude whether it was a cenobium or hospitium and especially who the people who lived on the islet were, because there is no proof that they belonged to any church order, although they apparently overcame hermitic customs.