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Cyprian’s pharmacy and manufacture

Inspired by the legacy of one of the monastery’s most renowned monks, Brother Cyprian, the restored Brother Cyprian’s Herbal Workshop and Pharmacy revives the monastery’s tradition of herbal medicine. This initiative includes the cultivation and harvesting of medicinal herbs, as well as their processing into herbal teas, soaps, ointments, tinctures, and confectionery products, possibly using some of Brother Cyprian’s original surviving recipes.

The entire production process takes place within the monastery and is closely connected with the residents of the Zamagurie and Pieniny sub-region.

To accommodate the Herbal Workshop, the premises above the monastery brewery have been restored. The herbal products are sold in the period-style Brother Cyprian’s Pharmacy, which forms part of the museum shop.

The project also includes the restoration of existing herb gardens and the creation of new ones within the ruins of the former monks’ houses, together with a new information system introducing visitors to the medicinal plants grown there.

Visitors can also try making their own herbal tea or herb-scented soap during hands-on workshops organised as part of the Monastery School programme.

Friar Cyprian: birth name František Ignác Jäschke (* July 28, 1724 Polkowice, Silesia, † 1775, Red Monastery) of the Camaldolese order inspired another upcoming activity: production based on medicinal herbs. Monk Cyprian was known as a generally educated traveller, folk healer, a collector, or even an engineer who excelled in medicine, pharmacy, alchemy, and botany. Thanks to all these gifts of his, he was sought after in the Red Monastery by people from far and wide. He sold them drugs and for the money earned, he set up a pharmacy development fund in the Red Monastery.

Časová os

  • Original state - former kitchen in the school in nature.

    Our demolition works started right here in May 2019.  Future “kitchen” will serve for preparation of different “meals”

  • Demolition of the ceiling

    Instead of starting from the bottom, we chose the ceiling…and continued with air-conditioning, and waste removal.

  • Removal of tiling.

    In the autumn, after the summer season, we carried on by removing the tiles from the walls.

     

  • Cleaned.

    In July 2020, we cleaned the entire area of the 1st floor, premises E and now, a company that won the tender, can come and start the renovation.

     

  • ADJUSTMENT OF HERBAL GARDENS.

    Spring has finally arrived in the Red Monastery, so we were able to begin the planned modification and expansion of herb gardens within the ruins of the monk’s houses. The new soil, specially prepared and prepared for herbs, will expand the area under cultivation by several ares.