Filotheou

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Entrance of the Philotheou monastery
The Philotheou Monastery
Philotheou Monastery - View of the Katholikon

The Philotheou or Filotheou Monastery ( Greek Μονή Φιλοθέου ) is one of the twenty Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos . It is located on the northeast side of the Athos peninsula in the vicinity of the Karakallou monastery. Filotheou monastery occupies 12th place in the hierarchical ranking of the Athos monasteries.

The main festival day of the monastery is March 25th ( Annunciation ).

history

According to tradition, the monastery was built in the 10th century by the monks Philotheos, Arsenios and Dionysios by expanding an existing kellion . The first actual evidence for the existence of the monastery and its name comes from the year 1015: in a document of the Athonite Protos Nikephoros a certain George is mentioned, "Monk and Hegumen of Philotheou".

High-ranking people were among the patrons of the monastery, such as the Byzantine emperor Nikephorus III. Botaneiates , Andronikos II. , Andronikos III. and John V. Furthermore, the Serbian King Stephan Dushan and the kings of Kakheti Levan I and Alexander II, who financed renovations and the construction of the refectory in 1542 .

Equipment, relics, library

The catholicon was built in 1746 over the remains of the previous building, the nave, the narthex (lite) and the atrium were painted with frescoes in 1765, the marble floor and the iconostasis date from the 19th century.

In the Katholikon there is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God Glykophilusa or Glykophilousa (Greek: Γλυκοφιλουσα, "the tender one", "the sweet kisser"), which, according to legend, should come from the time before the iconoclast :

“The icon of Glykophilusa […] is said to have belonged to a pious patrician named Victoria, who lived in Constantinople at the time of the iconoclasm, when Emperor Leon III. had such images of grace destroyed. Instead of handing the icon to her iconoclastic husband Symeon, Viktoria is said to have thrown it into the sea at divine command. When the icon got to the coast of Mount Athos, it was found by the abbot of the Philotheou monastery. At the point where the portrait reached the beach of the Holy Mountain, a spring opened up, the healing water of which is said to have helped childless women and the paralyzed for centuries. "

Among the outstanding relics include a Cross reliquary and the right hand of John Chrysostom , which in 1284 by Emperor Andronicus II. Was donated to the monastery. The library in the east wing of the monastery contains 250 manuscripts (54 of them on parchment) and around 20,000 prints (500 of them in Russian and Romanian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Massimo Capuani, Maurizio Paparozzi: Athos. The foundations of the monastery. A millennium of spirituality and orthodox art . Fink, Munich 1999, p. 188-189 .
  2. ↑ Moni Philotheou. In: Athos-reisen.com. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ Philotheou Monastery (Athos). In: OrthodoxWiki. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 13 ′ 32 ″  N , 24 ° 17 ′ 27 ″  E