by Mpantis Athanasios | 19 October 2020 | News
Mount Athos the wall-paintings of Apocalypse Dionisiou monastery. The monastery is built along the western coast of the peninsula on a rocky cliff high above the sea and overlooking a deep wooded ravine. In 1535, the monastery was swept by fire destroying it....
by Mpantis Athanasios | 24 August 2020 | News
Mount Athos the Major Skete of St. Anne’s. St. Anne’s Skete (or, less commonly, The Major Skete of St. Anne’s) is one of four sketes attached to the Great Lavra of Mount Athos. It a Greek idiorrhythmic (hermitage-style) skete consisting of fifty one kalyvae and it is...
by Mpantis Athanasios | 6 July 2020 | News
The cell of Burazeri, also Belozyorka, is a dependency of the Monastery of Chilandari on Mount Athos. It is located in Karyes, south of the Skete of Saint Andrew (Sarai). In the past, Karyes was much smaller and the cell was outside of the skete on the road from the...
by Mpantis Athanasios | 18 June 2020 | News
The Holy Monastery of Xenofontos. (Greek Ξενοφώντος) is one of the twenty monasteries located on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northeastern Greece. The monastery is on the southwestern side of the peninsula near the Monastery of St. Panteleimon. Xenofontos ranks...
by Mpantis Athanasios | 2 June 2020 | News
Mother of God, even if the rules of iconography insist that the holy image depicted (the saints) should be with black hair and black eyes, however, from tradition and from visions, we are informed from the saints which saw the Mother of God that her hair texture...
by Mpantis Athanasios | 20 May 2020 | News
Mount Athos, Simonopetra Monastery, also Monastery of Simonos Petra (Greek: Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery is located on the southern coast of the Athos peninsula, between the...
