MONTENEGRO / 1452 construction date as reported by the tourism account
Our Lady of the Rocks: an icon and an artificial island
An icon found on a stormy night and a recovery story surround an artificial island near Perast. The dossier examines a sacred interpretation and the human construction it inspired.
Our Lady of the Rocks, Perast · Approximate orientation marker for the named locality, not an exact encounter, burial, ritual or excavation position.
Assessment: An artificial island, church and associated icon tradition are documented. The alleged miraculous recovery and exact circumstances of the discovery are unestablished by these guides.
Investigation and inspector’s assessment
The mystery and the documented account
Montenegro’s nautical-tourism publication describes Our Lady of the Rocks as a church on an artificial islet made by layering stone. It recounts an icon found during a stormy night and connects the discovery with recovery of one of the Moršetić brothers. The guide assigns the beginning of church construction to 1452 and describes votive plates inside. A companion publication repeats the construction history. The account supplies a sacred discovery and votive tradition, rather than a directly witnessed apparition. [S1] [S2]
The question worth investigating
How early is the icon-discovery account, and can the sequence of island construction be established independently? The recovery story, icon provenance, votive offerings and engineering history need separate ledgers.
Evidence, provenance and uncertainty
The guides are overlapping tourism publications, not excavation or medical reports. A church’s votive collection documents gratitude and belief, not proof of the cause of recovery. The reported construction date needs comparison with earlier church records. The map marks the island, not a reconstructed spot of discovery. [S1] [S2]
Inspector’s assessment
An artificial island, church and associated icon tradition are documented. The alleged miraculous recovery and exact circumstances of the discovery are unestablished by these guides.
Next research and discriminating evidence
Compare church inventories, attributed histories and published island surveys. Date votive objects individually and distinguish donor testimony from later explanatory labels. Search for the earliest reference to the brothers and storm. Check construction phases without removing stones or proposing access to restricted church areas.
Documentary chronology
- 1452 in the guide
Construction is reported to begin following the icon tradition. [S1]
- Undated island-building sequence
The guide describes layers of stone forming the artificial islet. [S1]
- Later votive tradition
The church is described as preserving offerings and painted decoration. [S1]
- 30 September 2026
Eklipsis compiles this English documentary investigation from the named sources. No field visit or new eyewitness interview is claimed.
Dates distinguish the event, the creation of a record and its later publication. Approximate dates remain approximate.
Evidence ledger
Documented in the named record
The official nautical guide describes stone layering to form an artificial island.
Not established by the selected evidence
The icon discovery has an independently verified supernatural cause or therapeutic effect.
Editorial assessment; stated limits apply
An artificial island, church and associated icon tradition are documented. The alleged miraculous recovery and exact circumstances of the discovery are unestablished by these guides.
Hypothesis review
Devotion linked to gradual human construction
Supported physical and cultural framework
- Supporting considerations
- The account identifies an artificial island and votive practice.
- Limits and objections
- Individual building phases are not supplied.
- Discriminating test
- Compare inventories and survey phases with dated donations.
A miraculous discovery and recovery
Attributed religious tradition
- Supporting considerations
- The guide connects an icon with a brother’s recovery.
- Limits and objections
- No contemporaneous case record is given.
- Discriminating test
- Find the earliest attributable narrative and distinguish reported outcome from its interpretation.
Inspector’s next steps
Trace the earliest accessible record
For Our Lady of the Rocks: an icon and an artificial island, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.
Investigate the central question
Compare church inventories, attributed histories and published island surveys. Date votive objects individually and distinguish donor testimony from later explanatory labels. Search for the earliest reference to the brothers and storm. Check construction phases without removing stones or proposing access to restricted church areas.
Compare explanations without merging evidence
Compare inventories and survey phases with dated donations. Find the earliest attributable narrative and distinguish reported outcome from its interpretation. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.
These are proposed research tasks, not completed fieldwork or requests already sent to an archive.
Documents and source register
Original reports, scans, catalogue records and later analyses are identified separately. Alternate copies of the same document do not add independent evidence. Follow the named archive for full access information.
Montenegro Tourism — Nautical promotion guide
Icon narrative, artificial island and reported construction date; no original medical record.
Language: en
Open original source ↗Montenegro Tourism — Megayacht coastal guide
Overlapping publication from the same authority; not independent discovery testimony.
Language: en
Open original source ↗Downloadable working files
The pack contains the English dossier, a structured case record, source register, chronology, evidence ledger, hypothesis comparison and inspector task sheet. Downloaded source documents, when available for redistribution, are identified in the pack manifest. Other documents remain direct source links.
- English dossier · Markdown
- Structured case · JSON
- Chronology · CSV
- Evidence ledger · CSV
- Hypothesis comparison · CSV
- Source register · CSV
- Inspector task sheet · Markdown
- File manifest and attribution · JSON
Eklipsis authored this synthesis and its working sheets. The original archives and researchers retain credit for their documents. This is a documentary investigation, not a claim that Eklipsis conducted the historical fieldwork.