Athos Elder Makarii

The book proposed to the reader provides the biography of the great Athos elder Schiarchimandrite Makarii (in the world of Mikhail Ivanovich Sushkin, 1820-1889) The author shows a spiritual increase in about. Macarius from a religious young man who arrived at Athos as a pilgrim, to the hegumen of the glorious Russian monastery of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon. This increase took place under the leadership of the old man-spiritualist, Jeroschimonakh Jerome, who “was a genius in relation to nature,” as K.N. Leontyev. Thanks to these two personalities who worked so many in the Orthodox East for the sake of the honor of the Russian name, different in nature, but unanimous in their activities, not only the Panteleimon monastery, but the entire Russian Athos, took place. Making a biography about. Macarius, the author used both well -known sources and archival materials. The book publishes words and instructions about. Macarius of the brethren, which can now serve to restore spiritual life in the monastery, as well as letters to different persons. These letters deeply reveal the personality of the old man-hymen, show how difficult the position of the monastery in a foreign land at that time was and what tension of the spiritual and bodily forces, the wisdom of spiritual, boundless faith and the unwavering hope for God"s Providence required the landscaping of the monastery