Agiou Pavlou Monastery
The Agiou Pavlou Monastery ( Greek : Μονή Αγίου Παύλου, Paulus Monastery) is one of the twenty Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos .
It is located in the southwest of the peninsula and takes 14th place in the ranking of monasteries. It is dedicated to the presentation of the Lord in the temple ( Christ Candlemas ), the votive festival is on February 2nd (Feb.15). In 1990 there were 91 monks.
history
The monastery dates back to at least the 10th century.
Robert Curzon , who toured Egypt , Syria , Albania and the Athos Peninsula between 1834 and 1837 in search of ancient manuscripts and described his journey in his book Visits to Monasteries in the Levant (1849), visited Mount Athos in 1837 and received from the abbot, among other things, an illuminated Bulgarian gospel from the fourteenth century, which is now in the British Library , the so-called Tetra Gospel of Tsar Ivan Alexander . During his visit to the monastery in October 1845, Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii (1804-1885) took the 12, in his opinion, most valuable sheets of the Radoslav Gospel and put them in his collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg . The pages that remained in the monastery are lost today.
Web links
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
- Agiou Pavlou Monastery
- Mount Athos
- Info on the history of the monastery
Agiou Dionysiou (5) | Agiou Pavlou (14) | Agiou Panteleimonos (19) | Dochiariou (10) | Esfigmenou (18) | Filotheou (12) | Chilandar (4) | Iviron (3) | Karakallou (11) | Konstamonitou (20) | Koutloumousiou (6) | Megisti Lavra (1) | Osiou Grigoriou (17) | Pantocratorus (7) | Símonos Petras (13) | Stavronikita (15) | Vatopedi (2) | Xenofontus (16) | Xeropotamou (8) | Zografou (9)
Coordinates: 40 ° 9 ′ 40 " N , 24 ° 17 ′ 25" E