It is said that in the area there was a rich shepherd who ruled the hilly lands at the foot of Buila. He had 4 sons named Costea, a man, Dobre and Bodea, to whom he distributed the estate. They founded the villages: Costeşti on the Costeşti Valley, Bărbăteşti and Bodeşti on the Otăsăului Valley and Dobriceni on the Dobriceni Valley.
It is said that before becoming ruler of the Romanian Land, Matei Basarab escaped the pursuit of a band of Turks by exchanging their clothes for one of their own, hence the name of the place Arnota (mountain and monastery) and hiding in a swamp On the site of which he built a monastery when he was enthroned, the place where the ruler finds his eternal place, next to his father.
Pahomie The name of the monk of the great ban Barbu Craiovescu, the founder of the Bistrita Monastery, in the years 1519-1520, also builds the Pahomie hermitage, in memory of the fact that at the beautiful spring, in the wilderness of the Buila massif, on the road whom he was looking for through the forest to reach Sibiu, in order to escape the wrath of the evil Mihnea, he finds the salvation of his life and those who accompanied him in his wanderings. Among his friends was the army captain Sava, who became Sava the Haiducul, because, having lingered here for a long time, he often made incursions through the neighboring towns to get food.
The hermitage is dedicated to “Cuvioasa Paraschiva”, from the name of the mother of Bishop Climent. This hermitage was built in 1740 by Bishop Climent of Râmnic, in memory of the fact that he was born here by his mother Paraschiva Modoran from Pietrarii de Jos, fugitive over the mountain for fear of a Turkish invasion, sheltering at the foothills Mount Buila, where it was “penetrated by the pains of labor” in the place called today Pătrunsa.
