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The medieval aristocracy on Mount Athos : the philological and documentary evidence for the activity of Byzantine, Georgian, and Slav aristocrats and eminent churchmen in the monasteries of Mount Athos from the 10th to the 15th century. Center for Slavo-Byzantine studies "Ivan Dujchev". ISBN 978-9-5407-1595-7. Slijepčević, Đoko M. (1983).
Joseph the Hesychast played a key role in the repopulation of six monasteries at Mount Athos, as well as many nunneries in Greece. [13] His life and spiritual legacy are presented in a documentary film titled Elder Joseph the Hesychast (2019), which was produced, written and edited by the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi. [15]
In the classical era, Mount Athos was called Athos and the peninsula Acté or Akté (Koinē Greek: Ἀκτή).In modern Greek, the mountain is Oros Athos (Greek: Όρος Άθως) and the peninsula Hersonisos tou Atho (Greek: Χερσόνησος του Άθω), while the designation Agio Oros (Greek: Άγιο Όρος) translating to 'Holy Mountain' is used to denote the monastic community.
Little St. Anne's Skete or the Minor Skete of St. Anne (Greek: Σκήτη μικρή Αγία Άννα, romanized: Skiti Mikri Agia Anna) is an Orthodox skete on Mount Athos, Greece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cells
Aerial photograph of the peak of Mount Athos (center). The Desert of Mount Athos is the area to the left (or south) of the summit. The Desert of Mount Athos or Wilderness of Mount Athos (Greek: Έρημος του Αγίου Όρους, romanized: Eremos tou Agiou Oros) is a geographical area of Mount Athos that corresponds to the southern slopes of Mount Athos.
Honorary Chairman: A.-E. Tachiaos (Thessaloniki, Greece), PhD, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, Professor of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [2]; Director and founder: Sergey Viktorovich Shumilo, researcher and author of articles and books on Mount Athos, editor-in-chief the Athonite Heritage journal.
He became a monk at Mount Athos in 1973. [2] Initially, he was a monk at the Monastery of Agiou Pavlou. [5] In the 1980s, he also lived briefly at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. He went to Mylopotamos in 1990 and bought the area for 2 million drachma, or about 6,000 euros, from the Monastery of Great Lavra. [4]
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, [4] [5] as well as the combined rights of a decentralized administration, a region, a regional unit and a municipality, with a territory encompassing the distal part of the Athos ...