After the Fall of Konstantinople, the Ottomans presumably offered the Gifts of the Magi, which were preserved there, to the Christian wife of Sultan Murad II, Mara Brankovic. Mara had undertaken to continue the work of her father, the Serbian Despot Georgios Brankovic, who had financed the renovation of the western wing of St Pavlos's monastery. We know that Mara of Ezoba, as she is known to the Monastery, donated the fortress of Prevlaka in 1471, and the dependency of Marobitsa after her death, in 1478. It is not known in exactly what year Maro presented the Monastery with the Gifts that the Magi had offered to Christ.
