Nicholas Fennell, "Mount Athos and Russia: 1016-2016"
English | ISBN: 1787078809 | 2018 | 186 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1787078809 | 2018 | 186 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is about the Russian contribution to monasticism on Mount Athos and the Athonite contribution to Russian spirituality and marks the millennium of the Russian presence on Mount Athos. Athos has been the spiritual heart of the Orthodox world for even longer and Russian pilgrims have congregated there throughout its history. Russian monks visiting Athos have returned to their homeland with the treasures of Athonite spirituality such as the practice of hesychasm in the sixteenth century, the Patristic anthology known as the
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