A History of the Athonite Commonwealth: The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos by Graham Speake

A History of the Athonite Commonwealth: The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos

Graham Speake

308 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced

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This book examines the part played by monks of Mount Athos in the diffusion of Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. It focuses on the lives of outstanding holy men in the history of Orthodoxy who have been drawn to the Mounta...

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