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Bridge Heal Thyself 4 November 2011 For the last sixty years, science fiction has promised materials that, when broken, torn or otherwise damaged by use and stress simply repair themselves.  Crumbling infrastructure across much of the U...
Lightning in a jar 4 November 2011 When it comes to renewable energy there are a variety of choices.  Hydroelectric, solar, wind and tidal energy are all abundant sources of renewal energy.  Technology needed to develop these energy so...
Post-Byzantine small art-work from the Monastery of Vatopaidi Anna Ballian 4 November 2011 The sacristy of the Monastery of Vatopaidi contains exceptionally rich material for the period from around the mid 17th to the 19th century. The works which we examine follow the stylistic trends of t...
Archimandrite Ephraim: The spiritual legacy of Elder Iosif of Vatopaidi 4 November 2011 Conference on Monasticism Coenobium of St Nikodemos, Pentalofos, Goumenitsa, Thursday 1st September 2011 I have lived thirty odd years next to our blessed Elder, Joseph of Vatopedi. I have had ...
Letters of the Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, No 8 4 November 2011 “How is the spiritual law applied?” Nea Skete 12/2/1984 To my dearly beloved in Christ for whom I wholeheartedly pray, I found your letter upon my return, and I am sending my reply, even if it is b...
The Built Environment in the More Distant Areas 4 November 2011 Petros Koufopoulos, Diomedes Myrianthefs The dependencies of the Vatopaidi Monastery are numerous and differ in size and significance. The most important are the Sketes of St Demetrius and of St Andr...
The Built Environment near the Monastery 4 November 2011 Petros Koufopoulos, Diomedes Myrianthefs The buildings in the immediate environment of the Vatopaidi Monastery constitute one of the most noteworthy and best-preserved of complexes outside a monaster...
The Post- Byzantine Chapels within the monastery precinct Miltiadis D. Polyviou 4 November 2011 Of the 19 chapels which are to be found within the precinct of the Monastery of Vatopaidi, 14 are edifices of the post-Byzantine period, and in particular of the hundred years between 1780 and 1880. F...
The Tomb of the Founders Theocharis N. Pazaras 4 November 2011 According to a tradition, which has survived down to our own times and is already recorded in texts of the 18th century, the founders of Vatopaidi are buried in a tomb beneath the arcosolium* in the s...
The Marble Sactuary Screen Theocharis N. Pazaras 4 November 2011 The old marble sanctuary screen which separated the sanctuary from the central nave of the katholikon in the Monastery of Vatopaidi would seem to have been one of the most notable screens on the Holy ...
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