Category Archives: history

2034 – Athos: a history lesson

Posted on December 22, 2018 by athosweblog
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2018 – the German flak position on Athos in WW II?

Posted on September 5, 2018 by athosweblog

In the Second World War the Nazi’s invaded Greece and also took position on the peninsula of Athos. We reported about the Nazi occupation many times in this weblog (see f.e. posts  1218 and 1444). In post 1503 I shared two … Continue reading →

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1904 – ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ / Christos Anesti!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by athosweblog

Easter liturgy in the Protaton in 1958, photographed by Chrysostomus Dahm, who published them in 1959 in his book Athos, Berg der Verklärung.Gouverneur Konstantopoulos and Protos Nathanael in the ProtatonThe ending of the Easter ceremonies: a meeting in the Iera Kinotis … Continue reading →

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1881 – Album du Mont Athos 1913

Posted on January 8, 2017 by athosweblog

A very nice photo album made by hieromonk Stephanou in 1913. A very complete account in photo’s of monasteries and sketes. Stephanou lived in a cell (kellion) in Karyes dedicated to the apostle Thomas:Here are some more photos from this … Continue reading →

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1876 – Eight unknown spots in Athos

Posted on December 25, 2016 by athosweblog

In recent posts we showed some of the earliest negatives from the year 1853, by Ernest de Caranza & Emile Charles Labbé. We don’t recognize all the place the pictures were taken. They were shot in a time when it … Continue reading →

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1861 – Find the differences

Posted on November 15, 2016 by athosweblog

Xiropotamou in 1853. Photo by Ernest de Caranza and Emile Charles Labbé. Watch the figure in the tower on the right. Xiropotamou in 2013. Photo by H. Voogd. The towerclock is not round shaped anymore and they plastered the church … Continue reading →

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1860 – The earliest photographs of Mount Athos 1853

Posted on November 13, 2016 by athosweblog

In 1853 photographer Ernest de Caranza and artist Emile Charles Labbé (probably both sitting next to the ship in the harbour of Pantocratoros)) visited Mount Athos and made a series of photographs to make an album compromising 87 salt prints … Continue reading →

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1858 – Athos film in French from 1963

Posted on October 30, 2016 by athosweblog

This film is black and white, 13′.35 minutes long, with a long interview with a French speaking monk Pavlos Lavriotis – 1885 – 1980 (photo above) and images of the last remaining six inhabitants of skiti Andreou, see pictures below.A monk from Mongolia, … Continue reading →

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1853 – Skiti Andreou: historical pictures

Posted on October 2, 2016 by athosweblog

The ossuary of Andreou: also see the more recent pictures of Raymond Geldermans from April 1982 in post 1851.The old trapeza: this mist be the oval room on the picture below, taken from the garden. Notice the wall paintings: nowadays they disappeared … Continue reading →

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1758 – The photo’s of Athelstan Riley, 1883

Posted on October 20, 2015 by athosweblog

In 1883 Englishman Athelstan Riley visited Athos and made a lot of photo’s which he used for his book Athos or The Mountain of the Monks which was published in 1887. Some of the photo’s and the derived prints we … Continue reading →

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