Holy Mount Athos
The Monastic Life: The way of perfection
George Mantzaridis, Professor Emeritus, Theological School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
27 April 2015
Prof. Georgios Mantzaridis
With the advent of monasticism, a special way ...
Elder Symeon, Abbot of Grigoriou Monastery (+1905)
21 October 2014
A man blessed by God, Spyridon Angelidis, as he was before his tonsure, was...
Holy Mountain: a universal presence and a heavenward orientation
Nikolaos Metropolitan of Mesogaias and Lavreotikis
13 October 2014
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaias
The spiritual influence of Mount Athos...
An anonymous ascetic reveals his relics in a dream
Monk Vlasios the Athonite
15 September 2014
In 1982, on Tuesday of Bright Week, after the procession and blessing of th...
The style and ethos of Athonite singing
Fr. Iakovos the Athonite
22 August 2014
Fr. Iakovos, Protopsaltis of the Protaton Church, singing together with th...
How the monks make kollyva on the Holy Mountain
21 August 2014
On the Holy Mountain, the abbots of the last hundred years are commemorat...
Monk Moïsis from the Skete of Koutloumousiou
Panagiotis Panagiotides
18 August 2014
I was introduced to Elder Moïsis (Moses) in 1991 and worked with him, parti...
Rules, chrysobulls and the wine trade on Athos
Eleni Kefalopoulou, Oenologist
17 August 2014
The founders of the Athonite houses endowed them with vines, since they wer...
Athonite Obediences
9 August 2014
In Athonite coenobitic monasteries, the obediences are changed between the ...
Monk Païsios the Athonite (1924-1994) – 12 July
12 July 2014
Much has been written about the Elder. Those who knew him best and were clo...