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1963 – Watching people in Karyes.
The first monk we saw in Karyes, the capital of Athos and the only village where no one ever has been born, was an old man, whom we had met before on several occasions. The poor wandering man has got … Continue reading
Posted in 06 Koutloumousiou, Karyes, people, trip 2017
Tagged bread, cellphone, Holy Epistatia, school, shops, webmasters, wooden leg
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1849 – Skiti Andreou: a walk around the main church
The main church (E on the plan), build in 1900, was until recently the biggest church on the Balkan. It is enormous and ment for large groups of pilgrims, like the ones you see below on the historic picture from … Continue reading
1767 – Karyes September 2015
On our first day of our pilgrimage to Athos on Sunday 20th of September we reserved a place to sleep at Skiti Andreou (or Serail). Before we went there we tried to get an extention of our Diamoniterion at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Diamoniterion, extention, Holy Epistatia, Protaton, wooden leg
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