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The Saints of the Athonite School – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 Also to be included among the saints of the Vatopaidi Monastery are those of the Athonias - the Athonite School - given that this school, originally sited near the Monastery, was subject to its spirit...
Saint Cosmas of Aetolia – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Cosmas of Aetolia was born in the village of Megalo Dendro in Aetolia of devout parents and his name in the world was Konstas. When he heard of the establishment of the Athonite School in 1749, he ...
Saint Athanasios of Paros – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Athanasios was born on Paros between 1723 and 1725. He studied first at the Evangelical School of Smyrna, and then enrolled, in 1752, at the Athonias. Because of his many qualities, the School’s he...
Saint Makarios, Bishop of Corinth – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Makarios, whose secular name was Mikhail Notaras, was born in 1731 at Trikala in Corinthia. He studied on Cephalonia with the famous teacher Efstathios, and served for six years at the school in Co...
Saint Sabbas the Younger, the ‘fool for Christ’s sake’ Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 This St Sabbas was born around 1283 in Thessaloniki, the son of pious parents. His name in the world was Stephen. Having received his education in his native city, at the age of 18 he secretly left hi...
Saint Philotheus Coccinus, Patriarch of Constantinople Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 Coccinus was one of the most distinguished and most prolific bishops of the Orthodox Church. He was born round about the end of the 13th century in Thessaloniki, very probably of a mother of Jewish de...
The Martyr Saint Cosmas the Protos Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Cosmas was a brother of the Monastery and lived at the ‘Kareon’ Skete. He was Protos of the Holy Synaxis at the time when the supporters of the union with the Roman Catholics, following the ecclesi...
Saint Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery, and the twelve martyr monks with him Georgios Martzelos 4 November 2011 St Euthymius was Abbot of the Monastery in the second half of the 13th century - at a critical period for Orthodoxy and the Holy Mountain. This was the time when the Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus a...
Monasticism: The imitation of Christ 4 November 2011 Imprisoned within man’s limited vessel of clay is a wonderful mystery which we are only with difficulty able to approach. This mystery is the spirit of man, through which he perceives, to the best of ...
The Typikon of the monastery 4 November 2011 The spiritual labour of the day in its attempt to acquire the divine virtues prepares for the nocturnal revelation in the known yet most unknown world of divine worship. A knowledge of and contact wi...
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