Drouseia, Paphos District, Cyprus, February 16, 2024
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Elder Joseph of Vatopedi spent 13 years as a disciple of the great St. Joseph the Hesychast on Mt. Athos. He remained at New Skete after the repose of his elder in 1959, laboring there for another 28 years. In 1987, he moved to Vatopedi Monastery, where he remained until his repose on July 1, 2009.
Yesterday, the restored childhood home of revered Elder in Drouseia, Paphos District in Cyprus was blessed and opened as a memorial, reports the Orthodoxia News Agency.
Though deserted after the death of Elder Joseph’s parents, Vatopedi Monastery undertook to restore and beautify the home with personal items belonging to the Elder and a photo series that capture his life and monastic path.
The home was blessed by Archimandrite Ephraim, a spiritual child of Elder Joseph and the current abbot of Vatopedi, in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol, who was also a spiritual child of the Elder, and His Grace Metropolitan Tychikos of Paphos, who expressed his joy after having such a site within his diocese.
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The Elder’s house will also have the books he wrote, “thus guiding thousands of people to draw nearer to God, but also those of his monks, whom he left as a spiritual gift to the world, with each one of them writing about their own journey today.”
Elder Joseph’s relics were exhumed on Mt. Athos in October 2021.
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