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Saint Spiridon, the patron of Corfu
12 December 2012
The holiest shrine on the island of Kerkyra (Corfu) just off the western coast of Greece is the tomb of a fourth-century saint whose body after sixteen centuries is in such a remarkable state of prese... 
Saint Daniel the Stylite
11 December 2012
Stylites (the Greek word style means pillar)
In the early days of the Byzantine Empire, the love for God made many monks to choose strict and strange types of asceticism. So, some ascetics-saints wer...
Mt. Athos u-topias: A cartographic afterward in Thomas More Utopia island
Maria Pazarli
10 December 2012
This intervention is a short comment about maps, mythical islands, the internal quest for the ideal City and the way that all this concepts are related to Athonic monastic community.
For the past t...
“Who’s your daddy?”
Fr. John Parker
9 December 2012
In my first days in the Lowcountry, I discovered the importance of genealogies in Charleston. “Are you related to the Parkers on such-and-such Street?” Naively (albeit truthfully), I quickly responded...
Fasting Is Good for the Soul
Fr. Cornel Todeasa
9 December 2012
Fasting has been an enduring part of our world. Every religion practices it in one form or another. Fasting has entered through a variety of doors into our “modern” lives. We fast for medical purposes...
3rd Annual Symposium in Honor of Fr Georges Florovsky
2 December 2012
Princeton University & Princeton Theological Seminary are organizing the Third Annual Symposium in Honor of Father Georges Florovsky, “What is the Bible? The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture”.
N...
Saint Philoumenos the new Hieromartyr of Jacob’s Well
2 December 2012
Τhe Holy Martyr of the 20th century, Philoumenos the Cypriot, came from the village of Orounta of the province of Morphou. The neomartyr was born in 1913 and was a child of George and Magdalene Hasapi...
Monastery of Vatopedi through old engravings
16 November 2012
The engravings of Mount Athos played an important role in the late art of icon painting. They first appeared in the 17th century and were practiced in Mt. Athos in the late 18th century. Woodcuts and ...
Feast of the Honourable Girdle at the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi
Charalambos Demetriou
13 November 2012
On the occasion of the great feast of the Honourable Girdle of the Mother of God, my father and I decided to go from Athens to the Holy Mountain and visit the Monastery of Vatopaidi, so as to be prese...
