Xenofontos

Moni Xenofontos ( Greek Μονή Ξενοφώντος ) is one of the twenty Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos in the northwest of the Chalkidiki peninsula in Greece . It is dedicated to Saint George , whose votive feast is celebrated on April 23 (Orthodox calendar: May 6). In 1990 the monastery had 57 monks. Today it is in sixteenth place in the hierarchy of the Athos monasteries, in the Typikon of Manuel II. Palaiologos of 1406 it took eighth place.

Xenofontos Monastery

The monastery was founded towards the end of the 10th century by the monk Xenophon, the first documentary mention comes from 998. Property on the Holy Mountain and on the mainland could not prevent multiple crisis situations Pirates "destroyed. During the Turkish occupation, the monastery was supported by the Danube principalities. The art treasures include several icons from the 12th century. The library and archive keep 600 manuscripts, three liturgical scrolls, around 700 older and more recent prints and 33 Byzantine documents, the oldest from 1089.

A special feature of the monastery is that there are two churches in the courtyard. The older Katholikon dates from around 1000, the wall paintings there from the 14th to 16th centuries. The newer Katholikon was built at the beginning of the 19th century, it is one of the largest churches on Mount Athos.

literature

• EK Litsas: Xenophon Monastery . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 9, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89659-909-7 , Sp. 403 f.

Web links

Commons : Xenofontos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on mountathos.gr (English)
• Illustrated description of the monastery ( Memento from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Coordinates: 40 ° 14 ′ 45 ″  N , 24 ° 11 ′ 25 ″  E