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2172 – Arte TV: the story of the theft of the Sografou manuscript by Bulgary
Still from the footage: a secret door in a library Click here to see the video. This is the story -in French and German- of the theft of the Bulgarian “founding” manuscript in the ’80-ties and how it...
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2173 – Athos related Portable Icons
A new initiative of the The Holy Community of Mount Athos is online, Athos Digital Heritage. A digital repository with 300,000 objects, such as manuscripts, historical documents, photographs, books,...
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2174 – Athos related Portable Icons part 2
I have scanned the Athos Digital Heritage database on Portable Icons that have a direct connection with the Holy Mountain. Here is the second part. First the title, then the year when it was made and...
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2175 – Athos related Portable Icons part 3
The appearance of the panagia (Virgin Mary) to Athanasios the Athonite, 18075 – 1975, Dionysiou, fragment The miracle of discovering the place of Holy Water. The source of Athanios on the road to...
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2176 – 30 years FoMA: a promising new Athos book is published!
Already one month ago a reader of our weblog Bart Janssens announced that the publication of a new book could be expected soon (see his comment in ‘About’). He described it as a beautiful new book...
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2177 – Landslides and Tsunamis in 1905
Map from the article. The star on the right: the epic center of the earth quake. fragment of the Mt. Athos map by Peter Howorth, 1905 landslides (arrows) In earlier post we paid attention to the large...
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2178 – Saint John Chrysostomos and his chapel from 1888
Saint John Chrysostomos John Chrysostomos born 347 – 14 September 407, was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is honoured as a saint in many religions. The...
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2179 – A flock of birds
On the boat between Dafni and Ouranoupolis, on the way back from the Holy Mountain, you are often surrounded by seabirds. Mostly seagulls that follow the ferry. They are so greedy that they even pick...
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2180 – A closer look at the two modern archangels at Dochiariou
The first monastery where the ferry calls is Dochiariou. Since 2014 this monastery is enriched with two bronze statues of the archangels Michael and Gabriel. During our last pilgrimage I had an...
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2181- review of a new Athos book: Encounters on the Holy Mountain – the story...
While many of us and the world around us suffer under the terrible consequences of the Covid-19 virus, I am happy to give you some good news. In these hard times I have been reading a book with...
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2182 – Sad news: Monk Epifanios of Mylopotamos has died today
Epifanios (1955 – 11 december 2020) in his kitchen by Giorgos Poupis Monk, Cook, Winemaker. Rest in Peace. Wim and Herman Voogd
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2183 – The stairway to the guestrooms of Vatopedi
Vatopedi staircase 1938 This nice photograph is from the book Tour de Grece by Amadee Ozenfant from 1938. The heavily packed mules just passed the main entrance and came a long way over the monopati,...
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2184 – the Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys and Athos in 1957 -1
Already 12 years ago I expressed my wishes to show you more about the journey of one of the most famous Dutch photographers, Cas Oorthuys, to the Holy Mountain, together with the Dutch writer A. den...
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2185 – the Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys and Athos in 1957-2
source: Cas Oorthuys / Nederlands fotomuseum Rotterdam: contact print nr 2 The second contact print from the Cas Oorthuys files in the Dutch photo museum contains pictures of Karyes, the Protaton...
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2186 – the Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys and Athos in 1957-3
source: Cas Oorthuys / Nederlands fotomuseum Rotterdam: contact print nr 3 The third contact print from the Cas Oorthuys files in the Dutch photo museum contains pictures of Simonos Petras and...
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2187 – the Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys and Athos in 1957-4
source: Cas Oorthuys / Nederlands fotomuseum Rotterdam: contact sheet nr 4 Originally Cas Oorthuys and A. den Doolaard planned to stay five days on the Holy Mountain. They wanted to stay a night over...
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2188 – the Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys and Athos in 1957- 5
source: Cas Oorthuys / Nederlands fotomuseum Rotterdam: contact sheet nr 5 This post is the last in a series of five, with an overview of the pictures Cas Oorthuys made during his short visit to the...
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2189 – Flowers; nothing but flowers
We left Simonos Petras early in the morning to take the ferry. We had plenty of time. We only had to walk down the wonderful path 300 meters to the arsanas. I decided to take pictures of all the...
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2190 – Markos Kampanis new work
Vatopedi mural, 2013, 220 x 300 cm Greek artist, Markos Kampanis who made the large mural at the entrance of Vatopedi monastery have made two new paintings on wood for the building of the Holy...
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2191 – A strange, deserted building at the harbour of Simonos Petras
The first thing you see when you arrive by boat at the arsanas (harbour) of Simonos Petras is the mediaeval tower with a boathouse attached to it. The path towards the monastery, 300 meters up, starts...
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