Vysokoe. Bonifrati Monastery.

The Bonifrati monastery with a church was founded in the high Prince Sapieha at the end of the 18th century. The Bonifrati Order originated in the 16th century in Spain. The main mission of this Catholic order was to care for the sick and almost all the monks of the order worked in hospitals. Bonifrats are translated from Latin as "good brothers". In total, there were several representative offices of this order in Belarus.

Chancellor Alexander Sapieha invited this order to Moscow and his court architect Jan Samuel Becker designed the Bonifrati Monastery and St. John's Church.

A monastery with a church was built on the southeastern outskirts of Vysokoe in an area called Mariampol.

Prince Alexander Michal Sapieha (1730-1793) - Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, public and political figure, philanthropist. He studied painting and music, collected manuscripts and books.

The monastery building housed the monks' living quarters, a hospital and the church itself. There was also a Monastery pharmacy. The hospital was designed for 40 people. At that time, there was an inscription on the pediment of the monastery: "for the salvation of loved ones, the Christian duty was fulfilled by Prince Alexander Sapieha, Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1785". And in Soviet times, the nadbis was replaced with a Soviet slogan, which spoke of the glory of the Belarusian collective farms.

The monastery only worked for about 60 years after it was built, and then the monks disappeared somewhere. It was not clear where and how the monks disappeared. It still remains a historical mystery. And even the locals tell about a ghost who sometimes walks along the earthen ramparts of the castle and constantly looks towards the Bonifrati monastery.

After the war, warehouses and garages were built in the monastery building in Soviet times. The monastery is in a neglected state.