2338 J. Med. Plants Res. of the second one is related to the healing experience of the Rila Monastery monks. St. Ivan Rilski is the founder of Rila Monastery. St. Ivan Rilski is well known as a nerve disorders‟ healer - a fact that corresponds to the large number of remedies in text, aimed at curing this illness. The ethnobotanical data is in accordance with the modern hagiographic concept that St. Ivan Rilski is a highly educated person (Pulos, 1992), which contradicts to traditional beliefs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The author would like to say thanks to Dr. Stefan Draganov (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria) and Dr. Yunus Dogan (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey) for help in plant folk names identification, their useful recommendations, for critical reading and correction of the manuscript. 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