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    Desert of Mount Athos or Wilderness of Mount Athos (Greek: Έρημος του Αγίου Όρους, romanized: Eremos tou Agiou Oros) is a geographical area of Mount Athos...
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    guide for Mount Athos. Mount Athos Center Mount Athos information guide A website about Athos Treasures of Mount Athos Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA) website...
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    Mount Athos (/ˈæθɒs/; Greek: Ἄθως [ˈa.θos]) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodox...
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  • Mount Athos has an extensive network of footpaths, many of which date back to the Byzantine period. These paths are typically trails designed for human...
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  • object of scientific excavations. Only Scetis in the Wadi El Natrun remains a monastic site today. Desert Fathers Or of Nitria Desert of Mount Athos Pachomian...
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  • Katounakia at the southern tip of Mount Athos, also known as the "desert of Mount Athos". In Katounakia, he lived at the hermitage of Saint Ephrem the Syrian...
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    part of and preached to. Some were monophysites or believed in a similar idea. The eastern monastic tradition at Mount Athos and the western Rule of St...
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  • Lazarus El Anthony (category People associated with Mount Athos)
    at Mount Athos in Greece. After he met Pope Shenouda III, Lazarus El Anthony moved to Egypt to become a hermit on Mount Colzim near the Monastery of Saint...
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    exist, and the monastery of Saint Macarius the Great still stands and has a thriving Skete community. Desert Fathers Mount Athos Wadi El Natrun Monastic...
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    Esphigmenou (category Monasteries on Mount Athos)
    dedicated to the Ascension of Christ in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It is built next to the sea at the northern part of the Athonite peninsula...
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  • Geronda Ephraim of Arizona also known as Geronda Ephraim of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos, (Greek: Γέροντας Ἐφραὶμ Ἀριζόνας) was born in Greece...
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    The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Latin: Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum; Greek: ἀποφθέγματα τῶν πατέρων, romanized: Apophthégmata tōn Patérōn) is the...
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    is a peak at the southern end of the Athos peninsula. Its summit is 887 metres above sea level. It is named after Mount Carmel. The peak can be reached...
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    Hesychasm (category Medieval Athos)
    Christian monasticism, it took its definitive form in the 14th century at Mount Athos. Hesychasm (Greek: ἡσυχασμός [isixaˈzmos]) derives from the word hesychia...
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    Sakharov left the institute and Paris for Mount Athos. In 1926 Sakharov arrived at Mount Athos, entering the Monastery of St Panteleimon, desiring to learn how...
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    Lavra (category Mount Athos)
    Great Lavra, Mount Athos (10th century): Georgian Orthodox Church: David Gareja monastery complex (since 1505)[citation needed] Church of Greece: Agia...
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    person of St Sophrony of Essex. After his departure from Mount Athos, where he had been a disciple of Saint Silouan the Athonite, and his subsequent move to...
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  • Jean-Yves Leloup (category Philosophers of religion)
    Buddhism, trained at Mount Athos, became a Dominican priest, then became Orthodox. A pioneer of transpersonal psychology and founder of the Institute for...
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  • a former monk from Mount Athos, and a close disciple when on Athos of the great 20th-century Greek saint, Paisios of Mount Athos. (Maximos is, apparently...
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    of Saint Andrew, also the Skete of Apostle Andrew and Great Anthony or Skiti Agiou Andrea in Karyes is a monastic institution (skete) on Mount Athos....
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    Stavronikita (category Monasteries on Mount Athos)
    state of Mount Athos in Greece, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is built on top of a rock near the sea near the middle of the eastern shore of the Athonite...
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  • known as Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, a 20th-century schema-monk Patriarch Paisius I of Jerusalem, 17th century Patriarch Paisius of Alexandria, patriarch...
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    be used for a kind of "psychological" self-analysis. According to the Way of the Pilgrim account and Mount Athos practitioners of the Jesus Prayer, "one...
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    or sandals. In the summer of 1995, Elder Ephraim (a former abbot of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos with a history of restoring and repopulating...
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    Karakallou Monastery (category Monasteries on Mount Athos)
    monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It stands on the south-eastern side of the peninsula and ranks eleventh in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries...
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    Stories of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos (2nd ed.). Koufalia, Thessaloniki: Holy Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas. Harmless, William (2004). Desert Christians:...
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    of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount...
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    Saint John the Soldier, of Egypt (6th-7th century) Venerable Peter of Mount Athos (734) Venerable Julian of Dagaz (Dogazou), of the Dagouta Church in Constantinople...
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    monasteries which excelled in the art of copying were the Studium, Mount Athos, the monastery of the Isle of Patmos and that of Rossano in Sicily; the tradition...
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    first King of Serbia. Nemanja ultimately went to Mount Athos, where he became a monk and took the name of Simeon, joining his youngest son (later known as...
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