Monastery of Panteleimon
The monastery of Pantéleimon (in Greek: Παντελεήμονος) or monastery Rossikon (Ρωσσικόν) is one of the twenty orthodoxe monasteries of the Mont Athos .
It is located at the center of the west coast of the peninsula.
It occupies the 19th place in the hierarchical classification.
It is dedicated to Pantéleimon saint, anargyre and mégalomartyr, votive festival on July 27th (August 9th).
In 1990, it counted nothing any more but 35 monks against 1446 in 1903. The number of monks went back since to approximately 50, mainly Russian.
History
The monastery dates, for its current form, of 1765.
Saint Silouane Athonite lived there of 1892 with his death, on September 24th, 1938.
The September 9th 2005, the monastery received the visit of the Russian president Vladimir Poutine. It was, with the Calendrier Julien, the vigil of the synaxe of all the saints monks of the Caves of Kiev, the first founded Russian monastery as from 1051 by monks athonites.
Artistic inheritance
See too
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monastic Republic of the Mount Athos
- Mount Athos
External bonds
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