Siluan of Athos

Starez Siluan ( Russian Силуан Афонский ; * 1866 in the parish village of Schowskoje, Lebedin district in Tambov Oblast ; † September 24, 1938 ), whose real name was Simeon Ivanovich Antonov, was a Russian monk and mystic of the Orthodox Church .

Life

Siluan was born as the son of a Russian farmer and entered the Russian Panteleimon monastery on Mount Athos in 1892 after his military service . In 1896 he was dressed and in 1911 took the Schima . He spent his monastic service on the mill, on the Metoche Kalamare, on the Stary Russik (Old Monastery on Mount Athos) and in the monastery food store as an economist .

meaning

Siluan lived in secrecy and was only known after his death. Today he is regarded as the saint of the heart prayer , which he was given early on as a novice in a higher, everlasting degree. His mystical writings are read by many people who practice the Jesus prayer . Siluan became known to a wider circle through the book Starez Siluan - Monk from Mount Athos by Archimandrite Sophroni Sakharov .

There is one of the few chapels consecrated to him in Munich that belongs to the Romanian Orthodox Church .

Fonts

Manfred Baumotte (Ed.): Starez Siluan: Mystische Schriften , Zurich / Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-545-20321-2 .
Starez Siluan - Monk from Mount Athos. His life and teaching , Düsseldorf 2007, Patmos-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-491-71316-1 .

literature

Eva-Maria Bachmann, Gisela Schröder: Sources of the Spirit. Experiences of great Russian prayers . Benno-Verlag, Leipzig, 2nd edition 1980.
Katharina Beta, Semen I. Antonov: A flame filled his heart. The life of the Starez Siluan on Mount Athos . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg 1987, ISBN 3-210-24845-1 .
Claudia Schneider: Starez Siluan (1866-1938). Monk from Mount Athos , writings of the Vienna Catholic Academy 41, Vienna 2000.
Ekkart Sauser : Siluan, Starez. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 326-327. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Siluan von Athos in the catalog of the German National Library
Chapel of Saint Siluan the Athonites
Text collection by and about Staerz Silluan in various languages
Silouan the Athonite (article at Orthodoxwiki )

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Manfred Baumotte (Ed.): Starez Siluan: Mystische Schriften, Zurich / Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-545-20321-2 , introduction.

personal data
SURNAME	Siluan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Antonov, Simeon Ivanovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian monk and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH	1866
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1938
Place of death	Athos

[1] Cf. Manfred Baumotte (Ed.): Starez Siluan: Mystische Schriften, Zurich / Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-545-20321-2 , introduction.