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Category Archives: 01 Lavra
2291 – The festivities of Lavra’s 1000 years existence. Part 2
The year is 963. A thousand and sixty years ago. The foundation of the first monastery on Athos, the Great Lavra. The thousand-year anniversary was of course celebrated in detail at the time. As someone said to me, the life … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, 14 Paulou, history, Karoulia, Katounakia, Kavsokalivia
Tagged 1000 years, 1963, 963, boat, dutch pilgrims, Ger Dommerholt, hermit, hermitage, huts
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2290 – Two young Dutch men witnessed the festivities of Lavra’s 1000 years existence. Part 1
It’s 1963. Sixty years ago. Two friends from the Dutch city of The Hague, Ger (23) and Jan (25), plan to travel to Greece by moped. They had previously gone to Spain by moped. They wanted to experience such an … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, 03 Iviron, 18 Esfigmenou, people
Tagged 1000 years, 1963, boat, dutch pilgrims, Ger Dommerholt, Ierissos
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2280 – a new Georgian keli on Athos
On August 28th 2023 a new kelion was opened on Athos. This is a special occasion, because the opening of a new habitation does not happen regularly on The Holy Mountain. Although, in 2018 I posted a blog with the … Continue reading
2275 – photo’s and etchings of 19 monasteries from 1904
On this commercial Russian website (sviatogora.com) I found old images from (almost) all Athos monasteries. There is also a translation in English. They claim that the old photo’s amd etchings of the 19 monateries are all from1904, but I was … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, 02 Vatopedi, 03 Iviron, 04 Chilandariou, 05 Dionysiou, 06 Koutloumousiou, 07 Pantocratoros, 08 Xiropotamou, 09 Sografou, 10 Docheiariou, 11 Karakallou, 12 Filotheou, 13 Simonos Petras, 14 Paulou, 15 Stavronikita, 16 Xenofontos, 17 Grigoriou, 18 Esfigmenou, 19 Panteleimonos, 20 Konstamonitou, history
Tagged etching, photographs, photos, Russian
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2272 – forest fire extinguished near Lavra July 8th 2023
Last Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 7:00 a.m a forest fire broke out in the area of Gourounodes, 5 kilometers northwest of Megisti Lavra (near Lakkou Skiti?) without, however, threatening any monastery. The extinguishing operation involved four water cannons and … Continue reading
2271 – after 400 years: a (second) new building in Karyes
The Greek website Voria.gr tells us that this new building in Karyes is the second(!) modern building in 400 years, called Samaradiko and that belongs to Lavra, and that it is almost ready to be used. The name is taken … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, Karyes, news
Tagged hotel, Protaton, restaurants, supermarket, voria.gr
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2267 – a drone footage of Mylopotamos winery
In this post we proudly present yet another unique footage, shot by monk T on May 5th 2021 during the Corona pandemic, when no one was allowed to enter the Holy Mountain. This video shows you the winery of Mylopotamos, … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, 12 Filotheou, films, Mylopotamos
Tagged arsanas, drone, monk T, video
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2205 – postcards from Athos: part one
Sending a postcard home was in former days a way to let friends and family know where you have been and a pilgrimage to Athos is no exception to this tradition. As early as 1905 the first postcards from Athos … Continue reading
