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    Peter the Athonite (d. before 883) is reputed to have been the first hermit to settle upon the Mount Athos. Peter is known to history primarily through...
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    who claim to live an ascetic life at Athos, isolated from the rest of the world. The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well-preserved artifacts...
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  • order, the footpath network takes pilgrims through: Great Lavra Monastery Prodromos Vigla Chairi (Χαΐρι) Pass; the Cave of Peter the Athonite is located...
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  • Monastery was a disciple of Paisios the Athonite. 1958: Paisios was asked to spend time in his home village to support the faithful against Protestantism....
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    Athos" (Athonite) respectively, are a reference to his association with the Iviron monastery on Mount Athos, where he served as hegumen. One of the most...
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    found inspiration in Elder Sophrony's experience in the Athonite desert, and precedent in Athonite skete practice, St Nicodemus and St Paisius Velichkovsky...
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  • Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (717–1204) (category Christianity in the Byzantine Empire)
    the limits of the Byzantine Empire.; 734 Death of Peter the Athonite, commonly regarded as one of the first hermits of Mount Athos. 739 Byzantine forces...
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    of the Athonite monastic community. The 2021 Greek census reported a population of 135 inhabitants. It is the largest settlement in Mount Athos. The major...
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    Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia (category Athonite Fathers)
    Greek Athonite hieromonk who became widely known for his gifts of spiritual discernment. He was canonised as an Eastern Orthodox Saint by the Ecumenical...
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    Saint Sava (category Athonite Fathers)
    autumn 1197. The arrival was greatly pleasing to Sava and the Athonite community, as Nemanja as a ruler had donated much to the community. The two, with...
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    September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (category September in the Eastern Orthodox calendar)
    of Elder Tikhon (Golenkov) of Kapsala, Mount Athos, the spiritual father of St. Paisios the Athonite (1968) Martyr Barypsabas in Dalmatia. Martyrs Menodora...
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    Joseph the Hesychast, Paisios the Athonite, Evmenios Saridakis, and Seraphim of Sarov attest to the great spiritual wisdom of Isaac the Syrian in The Ascetical...
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    Mikaeli 9th century, calligrapher; known for Adysh Gospels Euthymius the Athonite (c. 955–1024), monk, philosopher and scholar Gabrieli 10th century, calligrapher...
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    located in the southeastern extremity (called Vigla) of Mount Athos, near the cave of Athanasios the Athonite. Its name, Prodromos, is Greek for "The Forerunner"...
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    distinction as part of his defense of the Athonite monastic practice of hesychasmos against the charge of heresy brought by the humanist scholar and theologian...
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    monks and nuns following the teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Much of the architecture of these buildings is Athonite in origin. Today there are...
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  • 30/102131-apostle-silas-of-the-seventy https://www.acrod.org/orthodox-christianity/articles/saints/st-silouan-the-athonite https://orthochristian.com/132604...
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    Silouan the Athonite, the elder of Mount Athos, already canonized in 1987 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In the 1980s the Russian Orthodox...
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    voted "the greatest Romanian of all time". In Athonite legends, Romanian stories, and Moldavian chronicles alike, Stephen's victories against the Ottomans...
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  • Kollyvades (category Athonite Fathers)
    were Athonite monks who adhered strictly to Holy Tradition, and insisted that memorial services should not be performed on Sundays, because that is the day...
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    at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), director of the International Institute of the Athonite Legacy in Ukraine, a science researcher at the Institute...
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    on lay piety, community experience and personal faith. In the Orthodox world, the Athonite monks Gregory of Sinai (d. 1346) and Gregory Palamas (d. 1359)...
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    Catholic doctrine Peter of Damascus Wikiquote has quotations related to Nicodemus the Hagiorite. Gerasimos Micragiannanitis, "The Life of Saint Nikodemos"...
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    Gregory Palamas (category Athonite Fathers)
    repose, Gregory transferred to the Great Lavra of St. Athanasius the Athonite on Mount Athos, where he served the brethren in the trapeza (refectory) and in...
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    ). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1409–1410. ISBN 0-19-504652-8. Topping, Peter (1975). "The Morea...
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    to be part of the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On 1 February, once in Kyiv, Archimandrite Ephrem, one of the two Athonite abbots, was hospitalised...
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    Panagia Ierosolymitissa (category Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary)
    Ierosolymitissa as the most accurate representation of the form of the Virgin. Paisios the Athonite is said to have had a special dedication to the icon, and had...
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    board in the Turinsk women's monastery and the icon of the Athonite Mother of God, painted in the Athos St. Andrew's skete on a cypress board." The clergy...
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    anchorites, or by the later Athonite hesychasts. For the Orthodox the power of the Jesus Prayer comes not only from its content, but from the very invocation...
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    Tabor Light (category Articles needing the year an event occurred from July 2018)
    doctrine, the uncreated nature of the Light of Tabor was formulated in the 14th century by Gregory Palamas, an Athonite monk, defending the mystical practices...
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