Mount Athos - the earthly destiny of the virgin Mary, Orthodox monastic Republic.
Monasticism on mount Athos for over 1000 years. If we consider only the so-called cultural part of Athos's history, of course, the earth is no more such place where the Byzantine culture would be preserved in the same pristine form. In fact, mount Athos is a living Byzantium.
However, the story is not the main thing that attracts pilgrims from all over the world. Mount Athos is a place of constant prayer to God, the place sanctified by the deeds of thousands and thousands of monks for millennia convey to his followers the Orthodox faith in the pristine clean and preserving it as such until today. That is why Mount Athos is called the bulwark of Orthodoxy throughout the world.
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In September 2016. we are a group of parishioners of the Church of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God made a pilgrimage to the Holy Mount Athos on a route: "Moscow - Thessaloniki - Ouranoupoli - then the monasteries of Vatopedi - Yverdon - Pantokrator - Xeropotamou - Prodrome (skit) - cave of the PDP. Athanasius Of Mount Athos, The Monastery Of SV. Anna - The Monastery Of St. Paul Zograf - Dogear - Xenophontos - Monastery SV. Panteleimon is the monastery - the cave of the PDP Cosmas Zografski - Ouranoupoli - the grave of the elder paisija Athos - Thessaloniki - Moscow".
About it and watch the movie, which includes all 15 films, depicting key stages of our trip around Mount Athos...
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Pilgrimage (lat. palma Palma; palm branch with which the inhabitants of Jerusalem, met Jesus Christ) is a journey to the Holy land and other geographical places that have sacred meaning for the Christian faith with the purpose of worship and prayer; the walking believers to Holy places to worship. Bogomolets making such a journey is called a pilgrim or a pilgrim (from the Latin. peregrinus "stranger, stranger").
Christian tradition is based on the desire of believers to worship places and shrines associated with Christ, the apostles, the blessed virgin Mary, to pray before the miraculous icons, immerse yourself in the sacred waters of the Jordan river, and sacred springs, the Greek mount Athos, the Italian city of Bari, where the relics of St. Nicholas, the Montenegrin capital of Cetinje, where the right hand of John the Baptist and other Christian shrines.
Pilgrims make their trips both to local shrines and are far beyond his country.
Other religions have similar practices:
Hajj - Muslims visit Mecca, Medina, and the Commission there are prescribed rituals;
Kora - ritual circumambulation around a Shrine in the religions of India, Nepal and Tibet;
in lamaists - visit Lhasa (Tibet);
Indians - visit to Prayaga and Varanasi (Benares, India) (the latter also from Jain and Mahayanists);
Buddhists and Shinto - visit Nara (Japan).
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