Elder Elisaios: “1050 years of Holy Mountain”

Source: Pemptousia

October 28, 2015

Elder Elisaios, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras on Mt. Athos, spoke on the topic of the 1050th anniversary of the blessed Mt Athos. The talk was given at an adult school in the city of Katerini, Macedonia, Greece.

Pemptousia

10/30/2015

See also
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Archimandrite Nikodemos Skrettas On St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite and the Kollyvades Fathers On St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite and the Kollyvades Fathers
Archimandrite Nikodemos Skrettas
Against the supposedly very knowledgeable western man who lives intensely in his “enlightenment,” his vast storage of knowledge, the Kollyvades came and placed the struggling ascetic man seeking for holiness, and the new martyrs. In this context of sanctification and holiness the Kollyvades Fathers of the Philokalia stood and lived. Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church receives members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church receives members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church receives members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church receives members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos
On 17 June 2015, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the members of the Commission on preparation for the 1000th anniversary of the Russian monasticism on the Holy Mountain of Athos.
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