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Elder Arsenios the Cave Dweller (Greek: Γέρων Αρσένιος ο Σπηλαιώτης; Samsun, 1886 – Mount Athos, 1983 [1]) was a Greek Orthodox monk and elder. [2] He was the primary companion of St. Joseph the Hesychast for about 40 years.
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 her book Home Life in Colonial Days, Alice Morse Earle wrote of some of the first European settlers in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania living in cave dwellings, also known as "smoaky homes": In Pennsylvania caves were used by newcomers as homes for a long time, certainly half a century.
In ancient writing, apparently the best known of the African cave-dwellers were the inhabitants of the "Troglodyte country" (Ancient Greek: Τρωγλοδυτική) on the coast of the Red Sea, as far north as the Greek port of Berenice, of whom an account was preserved by Diodorus Siculus from Agatharchides of Cnidus, and by Artemidorus Ephesius in Strabo.
The latter were small groups (two to six) of monks and nuns with a common spiritual elder—these separate groups would join in larger gatherings to worship on Saturdays and Sundays. This third form of monasticism was responsible for most of the sayings that were compiled as the Apophthegmata Patrum ( Sayings of the Desert Fathers ).
Elder Joseph of Vatopedi (or Joseph of Vatopaidi, Greek: Ιωσήφ ο Βατοπαιδινός, also known as Joseph the Younger; [1] Paphos District, Cyprus, 1 July 1921 – Vatopedi, Mount Athos, 1 July 2009) was a Greek Cypriot Orthodox Christian monk and elder. [2] He was one of the primary disciples of St. Joseph the Hesychast at Mount Athos.
Ephraim formed a group of disciples after 1980, following Elder Joseph's instruction to have a group of disciples after the death of Nikephoros. His nickname on Mount Athos was "the Charismatic Submissive" (Greek: ο χαρισματούχος υποτακτικός, romanized: O Charismatuchos Ypotaktikos) because of the obedience he showed to ...
Companions of the Cave), [3] is a late antique Christian legend, and a Qur’anic Islamic story. The Christian legend speaks about a group of youths who hid inside a cave [ 4 ] outside the city of Ephesus (modern-day Selçuk , Turkey ) around AD 250 to escape Roman persecutions of Christians and emerged many years later.