Volume XV - 1960

Author Category Volume Page Year Language Brother Alexandros of Lavra PAPERS AND STUDIES 14 452 - 456 1960 French Title , Mount Athos – The millennium of the first Athonite mission (961-1961) Summary PDF Athanasios the Athonite, later canonized Saint Athanasios, was a bosom friend of Nicephorus Phocas. It was in this capacity that he travelled to Crete to bolster efforts during the siege of Chandax. Once the island had been retaken from the Arabs, he worked alongside Ioannis the hermit and Nicon Metaoneite to restore Orthodoxy, thus carrying out an Athonite mission. Thereafter he withdrew to the Holy Mountain, where with Phocas’ assistance he founded the Monastery of Megisti Lavra and re-organised Athonite monasticism. An excerpt from the surviving typikon of Saint Athanasios, written in the saint’s own hand, is published here.