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| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2009-07-28 |
| Categories: Daily Life, Artwork |
| Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8800 |
| Exposure: f/4.5, 1/400 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop |
| Date Submitted: 2009-09-08 12:47 |
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Same serial:
“Discover the secret paradise of Greece”
For today: St Atos Mount - Hilandar, Serbian Orthodox Monastery #10
If you carefully looking to the photo serial, you feels like you've really been there walk around Monasteries. I spend 8.170km. to get over there - adrift...
About the monks:
The monks call the Holy Mountain “the garden of the Most Holy Mother of God” (to periboli thV PanagiaV). This expression recalls the ancient tradition concerning the dedication of Athos and the origin of the monastic life in the peninsula. After Christ’s ascension, the legend goes, the Virgin set out for Cyprus to visit the resurrected Lazarus. A miraculous storm carried her ship in the opposite direction to Athos, which was then the site of pagan shrine to Apollo. At the place where the monastery of Iviron now stands, the Virgin received divine instructions to preach the Gospels on Athos: “This place shall be your garden, and a haven of salvation for those who desire to be saved”. Since the appearance of monasticism on Athos was ultimately the outcome of missionary work by the Virgin herself, the Holy Mountain is under her sovereign protection. As can be seen from the many icons, stories, and shrines on all sides, veneration of the Mother of God is indisputably the main cult on Athos.
It is historically impossible to ascertain precisely when the first monks appeared on Athos. Documents mention Holy Mountain anchorites for the first time in 843, at the Council of Constantinople which sanctioned the victory of Orthodoxy over Iconoclasm. From the first half of the 9th century we also have the names of the first great Athos saints: Peter the Athonite and Euthymius of Thessalonica. Peter was the founder of anchoritic, eremetical monasticism on the Holy Mountain, and Euthymius the representative of the cenobitic, communal type of monasticism. The anchorites live alone or in very loosely connected groups, while cenobitic monks live in a close-knit, rigidly disciplined religious community. By the end of the 9th century, colonies of anchorites known as lavrai had already been formed. These were semi-eremetical settlements with very scattered huts and caves whose inhabitants used to gather in one place for common prayer and Eucharist under the spiritual and disciplinary leadership of a respected elder, the "first" among the monks. At that time there were already at least two layral one at Erissos, on the very border of the Holy Mountain (Euthymius's), and the other first at Zygos on Vigla, and later, from the 10th century on, at Karyes. This place in the centre of the peninsula (and therefore long called Mesh, meaning Middle) took over the position of "ancient seat of the elders" from Zygos, and the "first" elder or protos (o prwtoV) incontestably became the highest authority on Athos. The golden-sealed charters (chrysobulls) of Byzantine Emperors Basil 1(883) and Leo VI (893) guaranteed the complete freedom and inviolability of the Holy Mountain as autonomous monastic territory. This was later confirmed by the chrysobull of Emperor Romanus I Lecapenus in 934.
Virgin's Nativity - 18th century.
Their example was followed by other Serbian feudal lords, the families of Mrnyavchevich, Brankovich, Lazarevich and others. The monastery also prospered thanks to the assistance from the tzars of Russia, starting from Ivan the Terrible down to Peter the Great, as well as the Wallachian rulers. At a later date the funds were provided by the Serbian rulers of the Obrenovich and Karadjordjevich dynasties In Chilandar, which represents the spiritual and cultural centre of the Serbian people, many valuable treasures have been collected during the eight centuries of its existence. In the altar area and treasury there are two crosses embodying fragments of the true Cross, and there are also splinters from the Crown of Thorns, and the reed of Our Lord's Passion There is also the Royal Door curtain embroidered in gold on silk by the nun Euphemia in 1399, as well as the cup and flag of Tzar Dushan.
Three Holy Warriors, the monastery houses the oldest and the largest Serbian library of codices, illuminated manuscripts, incunabulas, charters, chrysobulls and copperplates. Chilandar boasts the largest number of miracle-working icons, not only on Mount Athos but throughout the Christian world. The only Serbian monastery on Mount Athos now supports some thirty five monks, who follow the strict rules of the Chilandar Typikon written by St Sava.
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