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26.12.2020

Calendar 2021 "Pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary Period 1821"

The Holy See published its calendar for the year 2021 in a luxurious and elegant volume for desktop use...

01.12.2020

The Theotokos prints at the Vatopedi Shrine

Mount Athos is known as the "Garden of the Virgin Mary". As the place par excellence that is honored, that appears,...

01.12.2020

Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi: A spiritual hive of Athos

The monastic life in monasteries, according to the ancient tradition of the Church, which was founded by Saint Pachomius in...

17.11.2020

The Sacristy of the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi

In the Vatopedi Monastery, a significant number of portable icons, gold-embroidered vestments, works of Byzantine and post-Byzantine miniature art, are kept as sacred relics...

24.10.2020

The conservation study of the frescoes of the Catholicon of the Vatopedi Monastery

Dr. Christos Karydis, Assistant Professor of Preventive and Interventional Conservation at the Ionian University and Eleftherios Papaioannou, Conservator of Antiquities...

01.10.2020

The history of the name of the Vatopedi Monastery

The Holy Monastery of Vatopedi is one of the oldest monasteries that has survived to this day. It is built on the coast of the same name...

16.09.2020

The monastic duties in the Monastery

The monastic duties are defined by the Holy Synax of the Monastery according to the needs of the orderly administration and living of the...

16.09.2020

Harvest in the Vatopedi Plain

The sixth month of the year was named after Zeus' wife, Hera, who in...