Georgian Monastery of Mount Athos
Journal Title: Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 27
Abstract
The Monastery on Mount Athos was founded in 980-983 years, after Georgian King David Kuropalates by request of Byzantine emperor Basil II (975-1025) attacked the rebel feudal Bardas Skleros with 12 000 horsemen and defeated him. Prios to those Georgian monks had already been arrived on Mount Athos and took part together with Athanasius the Great in founding monastic life. The evidence of it is a last will of Athanasius the Great saying that after him St. John and then his son St. Eeuthymios should become the epitropos. In 1357, according to the deed of Patriarch Callistus I of Constantinople, Georgian Lavra had been transmitted to Greece conveyed to Greece as if Greek monks exceeded Georgian monks in quantity and the role of spiritual life. During Greek People’s Liberation rebellion against the Ottoman Empire, Georgian monks stayed on Mount Athos and saved many monasteries from destruction. They found a common language with Janissary commander of Ottomans’ garrison located on Mount Athos. In the second half of XIX century the Russian Empire tried to “return” Lavra to Georgians but the Greeks resisted because they felt that Lavra would get in the hands of the Russians. Now, with the effort of Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II, apart from Georgian Lavra, Georgian monks are in almost every monastery on Holly Mount. I hope that descendants of Georgian Lavra founders will return their rightful place on Holly Mount.
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Giorgi Alibegashvili
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