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Funeral of Blessed Elder Joseph of Vatopedi: A Smile From Eternity 7 November 2011 July 2, 2009 Yesterday at 6:00PM the farewell service for Blessed Elder Joseph of Vatopedi took place in the Katholikon of the Sacred Monastery of Vatopedi, and at 9:00PM was followed by refreshments...
The Slavonic Archive Konstantinos Nihoritis 7 November 2011 The Holy Mountain constituted a school for the southern and eastern Slavs. After the death of the Thessalonian missionaries to the Slavs, Sts Cyril and Methodius and their disciples, bilingual teacher...
The Romanian Archive Florin Marinescu 7 November 2011 The Romanian archive of the Holy Monas­tery of Vatopaidi is clearly the largest on the Holy Mountain. Contents: 12,650 documents, 25 scrolls, 45 maps, and plans of landed property, 150 registers writ...
The Turkish Archive Vassilis Dimitriadis 7 November 2011 Among the treasures which are preserved in the monasteries of the Holy Mountain we must also include the Turkish documents which have survived from the era of the Turkish occupation1. Constituting pri...
The Holy Martyr Lazar [Lazarus], Serbian Prince 7 November 2011 Lazar was one of the Serbian noblemen who ruled the Serbian empire after the death of Tsar Dushan. After the death of Tsar Urosh, Patriarch Ephrem crowned Lazar as the Serbian king. Lazar sent a deleg...
Elder Paisios of Mount Athos on the “Old Calendarists” 6 November 2011 Elder Paisios dealt with the Calendar issue too. He was really worried for the division the issue has caused and he was praying about it. He was really worried for the groups formed by old calendarist...
The Wall-Paintings of the Chapel of the Aghioi Anargyroi Efthymios N. Tsigaridas 6 November 2011 There is in the Chapel of the Aghioi Anargyroi, a three aisled, wooden-roofed basilica of small dimensions1, an interesting set of wall-paintings of the Late Palaeologan period (c. 1371), which is, un...
The Mural Mosaics of the Katholikon – Introduction Efthymios N. Tsigaridas 5 November 2011 On the Holy Mountain, mural mosaics have survived only in the katholikon of the Vatopaidi Monastery. These mosaics, which are limited in extent and subject-matter, but are of high artistic quality, ar...
The Wall – Paintings of the Katholikon Efthymios N. Tsigaridas 5 November 2011 The Monastery of Vatopaidi, the first mention of which occurs in a document of the year 985, has links with the founder of the Megiste Lavra Monastery, St Athanasius1. The Monastery’s founders are sai...
Repentance, economic and institutional crisis 5 November 2011 According to Abba Cassian the monk seeks to obtain the kingdom of heaven and aims to purify his heart through repentance. By extension this applies to all believers and laity who wish to struggle and ...
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