Devič Monastery is founded in 1434 in a wooded hills of Drenica in the central part of Kosovo and Metohija. Devič Monastery was erected on the place where St. Joanikije /St. Joannicius/ lived in the highest ascetic manner within one hermitage pump in the 15th century. He was heailing ill and poor people and had been making miracles. Devič Monastery ranks amongst the most significant Christian shrines in the Balkans featuring the traditional rules form the ancient history. Devič Monastery is a endowment of Despot Djurdje Brankovic who built it in the memory of the healing of his ill daughter - virgin (devica), which is how the name came.

Since the 16th till the 19th century in Devič Monastery the books were being prescribed and decorated. In the period of the Turkish occupation it was burnt down, ruined and reestablished several times. In 1941. Albanians abolished it and burnt it completely in 1941, so it was reconstructed again in 1950. The chapel of St. Joanikije was enabled, two new churches were constructed as well as two dormitories and one belfry. Looted and vandalized in june 1999 when its nuns were taken away, isolated and humiliated, ethnic Albanians wanted to drive Serbian people from Kosovo. Since then it has been under the constant protection of French Forces. Finally in most serious unrest in March of 2004 Devič Monastery was burnt and destroyed utterly when the nuns were evacuated for safety reasons. KFOR Representatives announced how they had succeeded to extricate the relics of St Joanikije the great miracle worker from devasteted ruins of the shrine.