Mount Athos
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Holy Men Of Mount Athos
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Author : Richard P. H. Greenfield
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-11
Holy Men Of Mount Athos written by Richard P. H. Greenfield and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-11 with History categories.
Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. Holy Men of Mount Athos presents the lives of five holy men who lived there at different times, from the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century.
Mount Athos
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-23
Mount Athos written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-23 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Clear water where evergreens, azaleas cool ceremoniously...a kele lost among cedars, its roof open to eagles, door unhinged...silver leaves like a congregation of spiders..." When one hears these enchanting descriptions, from poet David Posner's 1964 composition "Mount Athos," it is not difficult to understand why this sleepy paradise is often extolled as the most peaceful and private corner of Greece, if not all of Europe. Mount Athos is the easternmost finger of the Halkidiki peninsula - a mountainous sliver of land that stretches about 37.3 miles long and 4.3-7.5 miles wide, with a surface area of about 150 square miles. Towering over the tightly-packed chestnut forests and the blue, crystalline waters of the Aegean Sea at a height of 6,670 feet is the snow-dusted crest of the mighty mountain itself. Known to the locals as Agion Oros, or the "Holy Mountain," the peninsula today is most famed for its exclusivity, a place that continues to bar all women and their daughters from entry. The fortress-like monasteries scattered amongst the slopes and the clusters of cells clinging to the cliffs are occupied by monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Of course, its male-only population is just one aspect of the peninsula's anomalous nature. Planted on the peninsula's coast is a black Byzantine Cross, a flat, cross-shaped monument with a trinity of flared, wide-armed, Greek crosses in place of its arms and a traditional Christian cross in its center, kissed with rust. It serves as an emblem of the monastic society that resides there, and it delineates the boundary between Mount Athos and the rest of Greece. Entering this hallowed peninsula is like setting foot into a living time capsule, because life here has not changed in well over 1,000 years. Mount Athos is one of only two places on earth (the other being the Mar Saba) that chooses to run on "Byzantine time," meaning Hour 0:00:00 only begins at sundown. Moreover, it is the only territory in the world that flies the Byzantine flag, a regal, sword and cross clutching double-headed eagle set against a rippling canvas of gold. Of course, to reduce Mount Athos to an antediluvian, single-sex monastic retreat would be an oversimplification of the fascinating history and simple, yet complex culture that has developed on this stunning strip of land. This is a place as mystically mysterious as it is serene, a space abound with treasures, miracles, and spiritual revelations. But for a place where purity and God-fearing devotion apparently reign supreme, it is certainly burdened with its fair share of controversy. Mount Athos: The History of the Greek Mountain and the Center of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism looks at the unique region and what life has been like there since medieval times. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Mount Athos like never before.
Mount Athos Thessaly And Epirus
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Author : Sir George Ferguson Bowen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Mount Athos Thessaly And Epirus written by Sir George Ferguson Bowen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Greece categories.
Mount Athos
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Author : Graham Speake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Mount Athos written by Graham Speake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
Mount Athos, a spectacularly beautiful rocky peninsula jutting out from the coast of northeastern Greece, has been a monastic preserve since the ninth century. Known as the Holy Mountain, it serves as the center of monasticism for all the Eastern Orthodox churches and remains fundamentally unchanged despite the storms of political and religious conflict that have raged over the centuries. This book is the first illustrated history of Mount Athos in English. It encompasses the entire story of Athos from the first anchorite monks who lived in caves and simple huts to the establishment of the first monasteries in the tenth century to the monastic renewal that is taking place there today. Richly illustrated with historical and contemporary images, the book considers the influence of outside political events on the men (for only men are allowed) of the Holy Mountain and, more important, the impact of spiritual movements and religious controversy.
Russian Monks On Mount Athos
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Author : Nicholas Fennell
language : en
Publisher: Holy Trinity Publications
Release Date : 2021-09-01
Russian Monks On Mount Athos written by Nicholas Fennell and has been published by Holy Trinity Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with Religion categories.
The Aegean Sea laps the shores of the Holy Mountain of Athos, a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Twenty ruling monasteries comprise the republic; one of those is the monastery of St Panteleimon, where services are conducted in Slavonic. It has become known as the Russian monastery on Mt. Athos.St Panteleimon, fully restored in recent years, can accommodate up to 5,000 men, reflecting the scale of the settlement at its apogee in the nineteenth century, prior to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 it has experienced a strong revival and is now one of the most numerous of the twenty. The vast buildings and its sketes and dependencies seen today are really only a reflection of the history of the past two centuries.In this first comprehensive account of the monastery in the English language, that stretches back more than one thousand years, Nicholas Fennell has drawn from previously inaccessible archival materials in gathering the wealth of information he shares in these pages. The history of the community is seen to interact with the wider worlds of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and the modern nation state of Greece, together with that of a Russian homeland whose political character is constantly evolving. It covers the distinct phases in this history: From the tenth to the twelfth centuries when Russian Athonites inhabited the ancient Russian Lavra of the Mother of God, known as Xylourgou; through the six hundred years from the mid-twelfth to the mid-eighteenth century, when the monastery of St Panteleimon was commonly referred to as Nagorny or Old Mountain Rusik; and into the most recent 250 years with their fluctuating fortunes and the questioning of its ethnic identity. Themes explored include the Pan-Orthodox ideal, the role of money and political pressure, sanctity and heroism in adversity, ethnic relations, and the importance of historical memory and precedent.
Stories From Mount Athos
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Author : Peter Howorth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Stories From Mount Athos written by Peter Howorth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with categories.
An affectionate testament to Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain, after 30 years of activity of the Friends of Mount Athos00Mount Athos, the home of Orthodox spirituality and monasticism, has been in existence for at least 1200 years. Home to over 2,000 monks, in twenty glorious monasteries filled with treasures, the peninsular is undergoing a transformation and renewal of faith.00In 1956 there was a proposal to build hotels on Mount Athos. Today it hosts up to 1,000 pilgrims every day! Why? This book will help explain this extraordinary place, the current resurgence, the growing population of monks, the sense of purpose, the love and affection that are so much part of the environment.00This wonderful story, with a preface by HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, is told through the recollections of the Friends of Mount Athos, an organisation that has, for thirty years, provided support for the institutions, landscape and people. Here are the stories of enchantment from over forty people of different nationalities, customs and beliefs.00In addition to the text, there are a collection of special photographs and maps.00Peter Howorth and Chris Thomas are long time members of the Friends of Mount Athos and veterans of multiple path-clearing pilgrimages to the Holy Mountain which is how they met. Despite living on opposite sides of the planet, their mutual passion for the planet, geography, pilgrimage and of course Mount Athos has underpinned their collaboration.
Mount Athos
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Author : Sotiris Kadas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Mount Athos written by Sotiris Kadas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Athos (Greece) categories.
From legend to history; Monasticism on Mount Athos; Mount Athos today; The government of Mount Athos; The life of the monks on Athos; Work; Food; Karyes - the Protaton; Great Lavra; The monastery of Vatopedi; The monastery of Iveron; The monastery of Chelandari; The monastery of Dionysiou; The monastery of Koutloumousiou; The monastery of Pantokrator; The monastery of Xeropotamou; The monastery of Zographou; The monastery of Docheiariou; The monastery of Karakalou; The monastery of Philotheou; The monastery of Simonopetra; The monastery of St Paul; The monastery of Stavronikita; The monastery of Xenophontos; The monastery of Gregoriou; The monastery of Esphigmenou; The monastery of St Panteleimon; The monastery of Kastamonitou; The art of Mount Athos; Architecture; Sculpture; Painting; Monumental art; Portable icons; Illuminated manuscripts; Miniature art; Vestments and gold - embroidered fabrics; Other treasures; Epilogue; Glossary.
Mount Athos
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Author : Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-10-03
Mount Athos written by Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Mount Athos The Sacred Bridge
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Author : Dimitri Conomos
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
Mount Athos The Sacred Bridge written by Dimitri Conomos and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.
Most of the papers included in this volume were first presented at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2003. Mount Athos is the principal surviving centre of Orthodox monasticism and the spiritual heart of the Orthodox world. The aims of the conference were to draw attention to the historic importance, the spirituality, and the religious legacy of the Holy Mountain and to shed light on the contribution made by Athonite monasticism not only to worldwide Orthodoxy but also to Christianity at large. Many of the papers focus on particular individuals who from the fourteenth century to the twentieth have exemplified the spiritual traditions of Athos and whose memory as spiritual fathers, confessors, and ascetics continues to inspire their successors today.
The Monastic Magnet
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Author : René Gothóni
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
The Monastic Magnet written by René Gothóni and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Mount Athos has been exercising its magnetic attraction on monks and pilgrims for over a thousand years. Many of the papers collected here are concerned with aspects of pilgrimage to Athos and the effect that a visit to the Mountain has on pilgrims' lives.