The first journey to the Athos monasteries and the monastery of Archimandrite, now Bishop Porfiry (Uspensky)
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Bishop Porfiry (Uspensky) (1804-1885) is an outstanding representative of the Russian Orthodox Church and the inter -sophisticated personality of the XIX century. Russian Orientalist, Byzantologist, Travets, Bible translator and the famous archaeologist. Among the many of his merits, especially stands out - the creation of the first Russian spiritual mission in Jerusalem. In mid -1845, Porfiry (Uspensky) went to Athos, where he stayed until June 1846, visiting all Athos monasteries and carefully studying their libraries. He compiled a detailed list of manuscripts stored on Athos, and even rewritten many of them. The result of the activity of Porfiry (Uspensky) was his work on the history of the Athos Mountain, covering the period from ancient times to the middle of the XIX century. He described in detail the natural conditions of Athos, the most interesting monuments of architecture, explained the origin of the name of the area, and gave a characteristic of its inhabitants. From this book, the modern reader learns for himself a lot of new information - historical events, legends about the Holy Mountain, many interesting data on the construction of Athos monasteries, their lives and labors
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Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Religion & Spiritually
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
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Paper:offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-902484-03-0
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