Athos Paterik

The whole Christian world knows that the Holy Athos Mountain is under the special patronage of the Blessed Madame of the Virgin of the Virgin and that this place is called by her lot, as the lot of her gospel word. This truth was always recognized by the Orthodox, but it is recognized not only by Orthodox, but also foreign, and even infidels. And countless experiments proved and prove the Mother of God love and delicate fishing about the works of ascetic life who have devoted themselves to Athos. Everyone also knows that, by its sovereign will, this place remains and will remain, as local traditions say, until the end of the world with the exceptional lot of male monasticism. Since ancient times, Athos and, according to the laws of the kings of earthly, holding it in Orthodox Greece before its fall, is doomed exclusively to the resolved reservations on it. Even after the defeat of the East, from the wicked sons of Agari, the Holy Mountain of their formidable overlords was left in its previous rights2. And since then, even until now, throughout the days of the East under the crushing iga of Mohammedanism, it remains the property of a monasticism and is, as it were, a separate monastic world with its laws in relation to its moral and external life, in the midst of the dominant savagery of readers of the false prophecy of the Mohammedan authorities, Without touching the rights and advantages of the Holy Mountain, burdened and burden her monastery only with taxes. Thus, the Holy Mountain, being the subject of the motherly care of the Prigorodevs as its heritage, and according to human laws - the property of monastic, was at all times by the stronghold, asylum and light of Orthodoxy, the helicopter, the crushing of the Orthodox monasticism, the school of asceticism.