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St. Philothei of Athens 1522-1589 2 November 2011 St. Philothei lived in the Turkish-occupied, sixteenth-century Athens. Her spiritual and social work was groundbreaking, especially for a woman of that era. It was accomplished within the Church and d...
Vatopaidi and the Greek Cultural Tradition: The contribution of the Athonite Academy Paschalis M. Kitromilidis 1 November 2011 The 18th and 19th centuries could be regarded as ‘centuries of greatness’ in the history of the Monastery of Vatopaidi. This was a time at which the Monastery played the role of leader at many levels ...
The Zenith of Modern Times (1830-20th century) Kriton Chrysochoidis 1 November 2011 After the departure of the Turks from the Holy Mountain in 1830, an impressive revival of the Monastery began afresh. This was to last for about a century. The metochia in Chalcidice began to function...
Karyes Monk Chariton of Karoulia 31 October 2011 Karyes is the capital of Mount Athos. The community already existed at the beginning of the 10th century, then known as Messi (Middle). Here was the seat of the Protos, or administrative head of Mount...
Byzantine Vatopaidi: a monastery of the high Aristocracy Nikolaos Oikonomidis 31 October 2011 The earliest evidence for the existence of a significant number of monks on the Holy Mountain comes from the middle of the 9th century. To begin with there were solitaries who lived in remote areas of...
The Wall-Paintings of the Chapel of St Demetrius Nikolaos Zias 29 October 2011 The Chapel of St Demetrius on the north side of the narthex of the katholikon, which is, according to tradition1, linked with the name of Placidia, daughter of Theodosius the Great, is a cruciform chu...
Post- Byzantine Wall Paintings Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 In spite of the fact that Post-Byzantine wall-paintings occupy by far the greater part of the surfaces covered in the monastic building complex of Vatopaidi, these are markedly lacking in the quality ...
The Wall-paintings of the Exonarthex Efthymios N. Tsigaridas 29 October 2011 Of the wall-paintings of the katholikon, of particular icongraphic and artistic interest are those of the exonarthex67. These wall-paintings, which have survived without the over-painting or later int...
The Wall-paintings of the Inner Narthex Efthymios N. Tsigaridas 29 October 2011 The inner narthex (mesonyktikon) of the katholikon is covered, as we have seen, with wall-paintings of 1760. An investigation has revealed the existence of an older layer of painting preserved, to an ...
The Wall-paintings of the Nave Efthymios N. Tsigaridas 29 October 2011 In the nave the iconographic programme is accommodated in three bands. The subjects of the Dodekaorton* predominate and are arranged on the three arches and the two lateral choirs. At the s...
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