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Location: Simonos Petras monastery, Mount Athos (Agio Oros), Hellas.
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Location, Simonos Petras monastery, Mount Athos (Agio Oros), Hellas.
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Άρθρο μου στην ιστοσελίδα της trivago
My article on trivago's website
Το album για το Άγιον όρος Holy Mount Athos
στο προσωπικό μου blog Λογεικών Logikon
Περιλαμβάνει περίπου 150 εικόνες ,σκέψεις μου,πληροφορίες και παραπομπές ώστε να αποτυπώνεται πλήρως η εμπειρία μου στο "Περιβόλι της Παναγίας"
The album for Άγιον όρος Holy Mount Athos
on my personal blog Λογεικών Logikon.
It contains about 150 images, my thoughts, information and references to fully reflect my experience at "The Virgin's Garden"
Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρα Άγιον Όρος
Holy Monastery Simonos Petra(stone) Holy Mount Athos
The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra (aka Simonopetra, Greek for St. Simon’s Rock) is the most daring construction on Mt. Athos: The 7-storey building proudly stands without any regular foundations upon a granite rock at a height of 1,083 ft (33 m) above sea level. The tower- or castle-like monastery was founded circa 1257.
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Ἱ.Μονὴ Σίμωνος Πέτρας Ἁγίου Ὄρους
A speedboat takes a southbound course along the Mt. Athos's shore. One can see two monasteries in the background: “Grēgoriou” (lower, just above sea level) and “Simonos Petras” (higher up).
Monastero di Simonos Petra, una fortezza a strapiombo sull'Egeo; sullo sfondo il Monte Athos.
In questa territorio l'ingresso alle donne è severamente proibito.
Simonos Petra Monastery, a fortress overhanging the Aegean Sea; in the background Mount Athos.
In this territory, entry for women is strictly prohibited.
40°11'29.0"N 24°14'50.0"E
(Slide Scan)
Μπαλκόνι Σιμωνόπετρας (Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας, Άγιο Όρος), έναντι της πόρτας του Καθολικού.
Monastery of Simonos Petras (Agio Oros, Greece), balcony near the church's entrance.
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Le monastère Novo-Athos Simono-Kananitsky est un monastère situé au pied du mont Athos en Abkhazie. Il a été fondé en 1875 par les moines du monastère russe de Saint Panteleimon du Vieux Athos (Grèce) (Patriarcat de Constantinople) avec la participation de l'empereur russe Alexandre III.
Ново-Афонский Симоно-Кананитский монастырь — мужской монастырь, расположенный у подножия Афонской горы в Абхазии. Основан в 1875 году монахами русского монастыря святого Пантелеимона со Старого Афона (Греция) (Константинопольского Патриархата) при участии российского императора Александра III
Le monastère Novo-Athos Simono-Kananitsky est un monastère situé au pied du mont Athos en Abkhazie. Il a été fondé en 1875 par les moines du monastère russe de Saint Panteleimon du Vieux Athos (Grèce) (Patriarcat de Constantinople) avec la participation de l'empereur russe Alexandre III.
Ново-Афонский Симоно-Кананитский монастырь — мужской монастырь, расположенный у подножия Афонской горы в Абхазии. Основан в 1875 году монахами русского монастыря святого Пантелеимона со Старого Афона (Греция) (Константинопольского Патриархата) при участии российского императора Александра III
A ‘’nest’’ of spiritual climbers…
Simonos Petras Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece.
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Monastery Simonos Petras
The monastery was founded during the 13th century by Simon the Athonite, who was later sanctified by the Eastern Orthodox Church as Saint Simon the Myrrh-bearer. Tradition holds that Simon, while dwelling in a nearby cave, saw a dream in which the Theotokosinstructed him to build a monastery on top of the rock, promising him that she would protect and provide for him and the monastery. The original monastery was called by Simon "New Bethlehem" (Greek: Νέα Βηθλεέμ) and is to this day dedicated to the Nativity of Jesus.
The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra, or more simply Simonopetra, is without doubt the most daring construction on the Holy Mountain. It stands proudly at a height of 330 metres on the end of a rocky mountain range.
The Monastery was founded by the Blessed Simon the Myrrhobletes around 1257, as a result of a vision. The whole of the building work, the Life of the Saint assures us, was accomplished as the result of divine intervention. In 1363 the Monastery was renovated with generous donations from a Serb despot, John Uglesha, who is regarded as the Monastery's second founder. In the Third Typikon, Simonopetra occupies 23rd place among the then monasteries of Athos; today it holds thirteenth place in the hierarchy.
Unfortunately, among the dates which are milestones in the history of the Monastery are those inauspicious days when it was afflicted with the scourge of fire. In 1570 the Monastery, together with its valuable archive, was destroyed by a great conflagration. This resulted in the loss of documents of inestimable historical value. It also explains why we know so little about the Monastery in the Byzantine period.
The good relations which developed between Simonopetra and the Princes of Wallachia in the period of Turkish rule made possible its recovery. However, there was another fire in 1622, causing further damage. Simonopetra, which had been a coenobium, became idiorrythmic in the 17th century. Although never looted by pirates, the intolerable taxes of the Turks drove the Monastery to decline and abandonment. By the heroic efforts of the priest-monk Ioasaph of Mytilene, Asimopetra (as Simonopetra was called in the period of Turkish occupation) began to function again in the late 18th century. The 19th century saw the building of the multi-storeyed building on the south side. At the end of the same century, in 1891, yet another disastrous fire swept away, yet again, the older buildings and the Monastery's treasures.
In the present century, Simonopetra has experienced a period of recovery and of increasing prestige in the Orthodox world - particularly after the liberation of the Holy Mountain from the Turks and under the enlightened ladership of the Abbots Neophytos, Ioannikios, and Ieronymos. In the 1950s, however, a period of decline set in and in 1963, when Athos celebrated a millennium of life, the prospects for the future were gloomy. But the 1970s were a time when there was a gradual revival of Athonite monasticism. In 1973 a new 20-member brotherhood from the Meteora established itself at the Monastery. The Monastery of Simonos Petra once had a large number of metochia with fertile farm land. The oldest of these would appear to be Petriotiko in Sithonia. Today, best known are St Charalampus in Thessaloniki, the Ascension in Athens, the Nunnery of the Annunciation at Ormylia in Chalcidice, and three others in France. It is also worth mentioning the metochi of Michael Voda in Bucharest, dedicated to the Monastery in 1566 and confiscated by the Romanian Government in 1863.
Simonopetra, because of the restricted space of its site, is not one of those monasteries where we can see autonomous, clearly distinguished buildings. The katholikon is dedicated to the Nativity of Christ and in its original form was built around 1600, while the form it takes today took shape after the fire of 1891. The Monastery has four chapels within its precinct and eight outside.
The Monastery's archive contains a host of documents in Greek, Turkish, and Romanian, together with inscriptions, and musical and other manuscripts, to which must be added its printed books. However, it must be pointed out that almost the whole of the archival material is post-Byzantine.
The sacristy contains a treasury of works of art, consisting of icons, vestments, silverware, antimensia, seals, and engravings. However, the most important treasure of Simonopetra is the left hand of St Mary Magdalene - she is regarded as 'co-founder' of the Monastery - which has remained whole for two thousand years. The Monastery today has a community of 50 well-educated and active monks.
Source: www.mountathos.gr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonopetra_monastery
Winner of the Lonely Planet Publications "Twilight" photo challenge
Published in the first issue of Lonely Planet Magazine
Interesting article on Mt. Athos from National Geographic
Nikon D70s | Nikon 18-200 VR @ 34mm | ƒ5.6 | 8s | ISO 200 | Tripod
Guarding the A5 near Bethesda.Magnificent Dragon.
Y Ddraig Derw...The Oak Dragon.It was commissioned by GP Dr Alofs.
Wrexham artist Simon O'Rourke took about 6 days to create his sculpture with his chainsaw and various tools,the sculpture is about 12 foot long and about 6 foot tall.The oak tree had fallen down in the strong wind.
Better viewed in L
Σούρουπο στη Σιμωνόπετρα (Ι.Μ. Σίμωνος Πέτρας, Άγιο Όρος), περίπου εννιά και κάτι. Τέτοια ώρα ο υπόλοιπος κόσμος ακόμη τρέχει... Σε απόλυτη αντίθεση, εδώ ο χρόνος γίνεται άχρονος και όλα τα προβλήματα φαίνονται τόσο μακρυνά!
Evening at Simonopetra (Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mount Athos, Greece). At a time when the rest of the world frenzies, in Mount Athos it looses its sense resulting to diminished worries and anxieties.
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The Simones Petras monastery is located on the south-west shore of the Athos peninsula, Greece. It was built by Saint Simon in the beginning of the 14th century on a sheer cliff rising 230 meters above the sea. The monastery features four chapels inside its precinct and eight more outside.
Natrona County, Wyoming
"A day’s travel west of Independence Rock, emigrants on the Oregon/California/Mormon trail—all one road at that point—encountered another major trail landmark: Devil’s Gate. Here, the Sweetwater River has carved a narrow cleft in the granite Sweetwater Rocks that is about 370 feet deep and 1,500 feet long. The cleft is 30 feet wide at the base but nearly 300 feet wide at its top.
Millions of years ago, sediments from eroding mountains and ash from volcanoes filled the basins between the mountains. Rivers cut indiscriminately though softer sediment and harder rock. One such cut, once the sediment again eroded away, has left Devil’s Gate.
Although the cleft was too narrow for wagons to pass through alongside the river, emigrants frequently stopped to hike around these rocks and carve their names. Often they noticed bighorn sheep climbing the hills. “The chasm is one of the wonders of the world,” emigrant Charles E. Boyle wrote in 1849. “The water rushes roaring and raving into the gorge, and the noise it makes as it comes in contact with the huge fragments of rock lying in its course is almost deafening.”
It is thought that as many as 20 emigrants are buried near here, though only the nearby 1847 grave of Frederick Fulkerson is positively known. The occurrence of several murders in this region led some emigrants to believe this truly was a bedeviled site.
One so-called legend about the origin of Devil's Gate was relayed by New Orleans newspaperman Matthew Field, who traveled up the Sweetwater in 1843. Field attributes the tale to a mixed-blood Delaware hunter, traveling with his party. The story tells of an evil beast with enormous tusks that once roamed the valley, preventing the Indians from hunting and camping. Eventually, the Indians became disgusted and decided to kill the beast. From the passes and ravines, the warriors shot the beast with a multitude of arrows. The beast, enraged, tore the cleft in the mountains with his large tusks and escaped.
By the early 1850s, trading families were running a post at Devil’s Gate and another at nearby Independence Rock. Mostly these were French-speaking men with Shoshone wives and families. Best known among them was Charles Lajeunesse, also called Simono, Seminoe or Cimoneau; the nearby Seminoe Mountains and Seminoe Reservoir are named for him. Other traders were surnamed Archambault, Perat, Papin and Mosseau. They would have traded hardware and supplies for cash or worn-out animals with the emigrants, and tools, guns and other manufactured items for buffalo robes with the tribes.
At its greatest extent, the trading post at Devil’s Gate included as many as 14 different hewn-log buildings built on three sides of a square. The structures had good floors, windows and board-and-dirt roofs. The post lay about half a mile south of where the river enters the canyon of the gate, where there was good grass for livestock and protection from the wind. Business was good—tens of thousands of emigrants were traveling the trail each year—and briefly the trading families prospered.
The Archambaults were last to run the post. They left in the summer of 1856. That fall, when two late-starting, desperate companies of Mormon handcart emigrants arrived during a terrible snowstorm, they found the post abandoned. The later company, led by Edward Martin, stopped at the post and burned part of it for warmth. Some took shelter for about a week at a cove in the rocks a mile or so upstream. Much later the cove became known as Martin’s Cove.
By 1872, a French Canadian who had anglicized his name to Tom Sun had established a hunting camp at Devil’s Gate, and by the early 1880s he and his family and cowboys were running thousands of head of cattle. The Sun family expanded the ranch steadily for more than 100 years. In the 1990s, they sold the historic core of the operation to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—the Mormons—who established a visitor center to tell the story of the stricken handcarters of 1856. The visitor center includes a reconstruction of Fort Seminoe, the 1850s trading post." (wyohistory.org)
The Refectory (dining hall) “trapeza’’ of the Monastery of Simonos Petra (Simonopetra) Mount Athos, Chalkidiki Greece
The Refectory of Simonos Petra Monastery
This is the most important building after the katholikon in the monasteries of Mount Athos. The monks go there in procession after the end of the Divine Liturgy.
The refectories are spacious, the older ones having solid built tables and the later ones long wooden tables. The walls are covered with frescoes, whose principal theme is the Last Supper.
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Τράπεζα Ι. Μ. Σίμωνος Πέτρας
H Τράπεζα της μονής Σίμωνος Πέτρας βρίσκεται στην κεντρική πτέρυγα που είναι και η αρχαιότερη της μονής.
Χαρακτηρίζεται από το ορθογωνικό της σχήμα με κόγχη στη μία πλευρά και τις δύο σειρές κιονιοστιχιών με ξυλόπηκτα τόξα και ξύλινη οροφή.
Το ξύλινο ταβάνι της Τράπεζας έχει κατασκευασθεί από τους μοναχούς της Μονής.
Οι τοίχοι είναι καλυμμένοι με εκπληκτικές τοιχογραφίες, των οποίων κύριο θέμα είναι ο Μυστικός Δείπνος.
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Simonos Petras Monastery, Athos, Greece.
Exiting the main monastery combound and descending the slope towards the sea, this magnificent structure is being encountered.
Although I've walked this path several times, I could never resist siting on that stone wall and admiring the calm and serene landscape, reflecting vibrantly into my innermost feelings.
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Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece. ~
Άγιο Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
I love seeing lizards and salamanders whenever I'm out in nature! I love the orange color of this one that seems to glow as well as the eyes that I think are really cool looking!
Yellow-eyed Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica)
Redwood Regional Park
Oakland, CA
01-17-12
I had previously incorrectly identified this charming little one as a California newt (Taricha torosa) when I posted it, but have since changed the description.
Thank you to Ken-ichi for the correct ID, to scott.simono for concurring with him, and to Isa and Jessica from the EBRPD for vefifying the ID. =)
Explore #341, January 18, 2012 (Thank you Rita for letting me know).
EBRPD facebook photo of the day, January 19, 2012
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Bell on the balcony of the Holy Monastery * Merry Christmas *
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece.
Άγιο Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
© George Eyes @
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece.
Άγιον Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece.
Άγιον Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
Απίστευτη η θέα απο την Ι.Μ. Σίμωνος Πέτρας στο Άγιο Όρος.
Breathtaking view from the Monastery of Simonos Petra in mount Athos, Greece.
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece.
Άγιο Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
Ατενίζοντας από το Ξύλινο κιόσκι της μονής την υπέροχη θέα του καταγάλανου Αιγαίου.
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece. ~
Άγιο Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
The Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra, or more simply Simonopetra, is without doubt the most daring construction on the Holy Mountain. It stands proudly at a height of 330 metres on the end of a rocky mountain range.
The Monastery was founded by the Blessed Simon the Myrrhobletes around 1257, as a result of a vision. The whole of the building work, the Life of the Saint assures us, was accomplished as the result of divine intervention. In 1363 the Monastery was renovated with generous donations from a Serb despot, John Uglesha, who is regarded as the Monastery's second founder. In the Third Typikon, Simonopetra occupies 23rd place among the then monasteries of Athos; today it holds thirteenth place in the hierarchy.
Unfortunately, among the dates which are milestones in the history of the Monastery are those inauspicious days when it was afflicted with the scourge of fire. In 1570 the Monastery, together with its valuable archive, was destroyed by a great conflagration. This resulted in the loss of documents of inestimable historical value. It also explains why we know so little about the Monastery in the Byzantine period.
The good relations which developed between Simonopetra and the Princes of Wallachia in the period of Turkish rule made possible its recovery. However, there was another fire in 1622, causing further damage. Simonopetra, which had been a coenobium, became idiorrythmic in the 17th century. Although never looted by pirates, the intolerable taxes of the Turks drove the Monastery to decline and abandonment. By the heroic efforts of the priest-monk Ioasaph of Mytilene, Asimopetra (as Simonopetra was called in the period of Turkish occupation) began to function again in the late 18th century. The 19th century saw the building of the multi-storeyed building on the south side. At the end of the same century, in 1891, yet another disastrous fire swept away, yet again, the older buildings and the Monastery's treasures.
In the present century, Simonopetra has experienced a period of recovery and of increasing prestige in the Orthodox world - particularly after the liberation of the Holy Mountain from the Turks and under the enlightened ladership of the Abbots Neophytos, Ioannikios, and Ieronymos. In the 1950s, however, a period of decline set in and in 1963, when Athos celebrated a millennium of life, the prospects for the future were gloomy. But the 1970s were a time when there was a gradual revival of Athonite monasticism. In 1973 a new 20-member brotherhood from the Meteora established itself at the Monastery. The Monastery of Simonos Petra once had a large number of metochia with fertile farm land. The oldest of these would appear to be Petriotiko in Sithonia. Today, best known are St Charalampus in Thessaloniki, the Ascension in Athens, the Nunnery of the Annunciation at Ormylia in Chalcidice, and three others in France. It is also worth mentioning the metochi of Michael Voda in Bucharest, dedicated to the Monastery in 1566 and confiscated by the Romanian Government in 1863.
Simonopetra, because of the restricted space of its site, is not one of those monasteries where we can see autonomous, clearly distinguished buildings. The katholikon is dedicated to the Nativity of Christ and in its original form was built around 1600, while the form it takes today took shape after the fire of 1891. The Monastery has four chapels within its precinct and eight outside.
The Monastery's archive contains a host of documents in Greek, Turkish, and Romanian, together with inscriptions, and musical and other manuscripts, to which must be added its printed books. However, it must be pointed out that almost the whole of the archival material is post-Byzantine.
The sacristy contains a treasury of works of art, consisting of icons, vestments, silverware, antimensia, seals, and engravings. However, the most important treasure of Simonopetra is the left hand of St Mary Magdalene - she is regarded as 'co-founder' of the Monastery - which has remained whole for two thousand years. The Monastery today has a community of 50 well-educated and active monks.
Source: www.mountathos.gr
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~ Mt Athos Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra. Chalkidiki Greece ~
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece. ~
Άγιο Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
Χωρίς δεύτερη σκέψη, άνοιξε την πόρτα της καρδιά σου με προορισμό τους χτύπους της.
Να είσαι δοτικός και δεκτικός, είναι δύο στοιχεία που η ζωή εκτιμά.
Le monastère Novo-Athos Simono-Kananitsky est un monastère situé au pied du mont Athos en Abkhazie. Il a été fondé en 1875 par les moines du monastère russe de Saint Panteleimon du Vieux Athos (Grèce) (Patriarcat de Constantinople) avec la participation de l'empereur russe Alexandre III.
Ново-Афонский Симоно-Кананитский монастырь — мужской монастырь, расположенный у подножия Афонской горы в Абхазии. Основан в 1875 году монахами русского монастыря святого Пантелеимона со Старого Афона (Греция) (Константинопольского Патриархата) при участии российского императора Александра III
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Griechenland, Athos, Kloster Grigoriou. Blick von der Wasserseite. Auf den Terrassen werden von den Mönchsbrüdern Feldfrüchte für den Eigenbedarf angebaut.
Moni Osiou Grigoriou (griechisch Μονή Οσίου Γρηγορίου) ist ein orthodoxes Kloster an der Westküste der Halbinsel Athos in Griechenland. Es liegt direkt am Meer auf einem felsigen Kap in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zu den Klöstern Simonos Petras und Dionysiou. Es nimmt unter den 20 Athosklöstern den 17. Platz der Rangfolge ein.
Obwohl das Kloster relativ spät entstanden ist, sind das genaue Gründungsjahr sowie die Gründungslegende unbekannt. Wahrscheinlich gehen die Ursprünge des Klosters auf den Mönch Gregorius den Jüngeren zurück, einen Schüler des Gregorios Sinaites. Erstmals erwähnt wird das Kloster im Jahr 1347.
Waren im Jahr 1903 noch 105 Mönche im Kloster aktiv, so sank die Anzahl bis 1968 auf 34 Mönche. Ein Aufwärtstrend um die Jahrtausendwende bescherte dem Kloster insgesamt 86 aktive Mönche.[2] Nach der Volkszählung 2011 wurden 96 Einwohner angegeben. (Wikipedia)
Moni Osiou Grigoriou (Greek Μονή Οσίου Γρηγορίου) is an Orthodox monastery on the west coast of the Athos peninsula in Greece. It is located directly by the sea on a rocky cape in the immediate vicinity of the monasteries of Simonos Petras and Dionysiou. It takes 17th place in the ranking of the 20 Athos monasteries.
Although the monastery was founded relatively late, the exact year of foundation and the founding legend are unknown. The origins of the monastery probably go back to the monk Gregorius the Younger, a pupil of Gregorios Sinaites. The monastery was first mentioned in 1347.
While 105 monks were still active in the monastery in 1903, the number had fallen to 34 by 1968. An upward trend around the turn of the millennium brought the monastery a total of 86 active monks.[2] According to the 2011 census, the population was 96. (Wikipedia)
Mt Athos - Holy Monastery of Simonos Petra – Simonopetra Chalkidiki Greece.
Άγιον Όρος Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Χαλκιδική Ελλάδα.
Built on a giant rock 330 metres above the Aegean Sea, the monastery of Simonos Petras is undoubtly the most spectacular building on the peninsula that makes up Mount Athos. Look, to get a better idea of the scale, at the boat down in the depths, that is actually a small ferry...simply a breathtaking construction that has already been standing for many centuries...
Simonopetra Monastery or Simonos Petra (Greek: Σιμωνόπετρα or Σίμωνος Πέτρα) is one of the many monasteries that occupy the peninsula commonly called Mount Athos. It is dedicated to the Nativity of Christ. It is ranked thirteenth in the hierarchical order of the Mount Athos monasteries located on the peninsula. While the origins of a monastery founded by Blessed Simon the Myrrh-flowing that may have been the beginnings of the existing monastery are clouded in the mists of time, the recorded establishment of the present monastery around 1368 is credited to the Serbian prince Ioannis (Joan, Jovan) Uglješa. The monastery has through the years experienced changing fortunes as it has weathered various political and leadership issues and natural disasters. With the formation of a number of metochia during the twentieth century the monastery is weathering the latest disastrous fire of 1990.
Early Origins
Establishment of settlements of hermits on Athos began in the later part of the first millennium. Organized monastic communities, while maintaining close relations with Athos, were restricted to the neighboring Halkidiki area. As the numbers of monks increased in the Athos area, the use of the expression "holy mountain" began to appear. This expression had been in use for many areas where sizable communities of monks grew. Formal recognition of the Athonite and neighboring coenobium communities was by Basil I in 857 who granted imperial privileges to the communities that protected the monks from tax collectors. Emperor Romanus I Lecepenus, in 941, then introduced annual grants for the monks at Athos. As the tenth century progressed further imperial support was given to anchorite communities at Athos. By the turn of the millennium Mt. Athos was a large and economically strong community with prestige and influence in Constantinople.
History
The origins of Simonopetra monastery on Mt. Athos before Prince Ioannis Ugljesa has relied upon information in the Life of the Blessed Simon and writings of Bp. Porfiry (Porphirios) Uspensky. These discuss the existence of a "Monastery of Simon" on Mt. Athos in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Other than the paucity of information about this "Monastery of Simon" and the later note of construction of the monastery on Simon's rock little is known of the intervening years other than conjecture based upon tradition attached to the Blessed Simon and the similarity of the name. In the event a monastery of Simonopetra was completed around 1257, and the reputation of the monastery attracted many monks.
In the intervening years the monastery declined until Prince Ioannis Ugljesa, impressed with the reputation of the Blessed Simon, petitioned Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople, to reactivate the empty monastery. With this permission, Ugljesa immediately built an entire monastery, but, after a brief period of prosperity, Athos and the monastery entered into the chaos and ruin of the ascendency of the Ottoman Turks over the area. Most records of this period were destroyed in a great fire of 1580. Yet, the monastery had functioned without interruption. On December 11, 1580, the monastery suffered total destruction by fire killing many of the monks. The survivors, however, were able to save the coffers of the monastery, which apparently were considerable as the Simonopetra monks were able to buy the assets and administration of a neighboring monastery, Xenophontos Monastery as a temporary home. As rebuilding the monastery required consideration funds, the abbot, Evyenios, journeyed to Wallachia in 1587 to raise money. Earlier in 1566, the Great Postelnik Gheorma in Wallachia had donated the Monastery of St Nicholas in the suburbs of Bucharest to Simonopetra monastery as a metochi. In the meantime the rebuilding of the monastery at Mt. Athos continued so that by 1586 the monks were back in their own monastery.
On June 8, 1622, Simonopetra experienced a second fire. However, this one only caused minor damage, and by 1623, the abbot, Timotheos, dedicated the restored katholikon. After this time the monastery appeared to enter a period of decline. By 1745 the population of the monastery had decreased to five. Finally, in 1762, the monastery was closed and taken over by the central administration of Athos (the Great Mese) to satisfy its creditors. In the meantime, Fr. Ioasaph of Mytilene managed to raise enough funds to buy back the monastery's metochia and restore parts of the monastery. However, the revival was accompanied by apparent financial wrongdoings that brought Patriarch Kallinikos into assert control and eventually assign a new abbot, Dionysios.
This period of chaos continued when the effects of the Greek independence movement caused the occupation of Mt. Athos by the Turks. While the monastery continued to function, the high taxation by the Turks and looting resulted in the departure of all the monks by 1823. After the Turks departed in 1830, the monastery returned to a life of constant turmoil. This turmoil continued until the destructive fire of May 27, 1891. Through the efforts of the abbot, Neophytos, and both with the cooperation and demands of the Russian Church Simonopetra was again restored and was flourishing by the turn of the century.
Under the leadership of Abbot Ieronymos, Simonopetra continued to flourish. But, after his retirement to the metochi of the Ascension in Athens in 1931, the Simonopetra monastery began another decline both intellectually and spiritually. By the time of his death in 1957, the decline of monasticism on Mt. Athos, as well as Simonopetra, was well advanced as depopulation of the monasteries continued. In 1973 a rebirth began at Simonopetra when a large group of monks under the leadership of Abbot Aimilianos Vafeidis arrived from the Monastery of the Transfiguration at Meteora. Subsequently a number of metochia were established under the guidance of the monks of Simonopetra, including three in France. Again Simonopetra was faced with the destruction of monastery property by a fire that started on August 14, 1990, on Mt. Athos that lasted 14 days. This again presented a challenge for the monks.
Recordings
In recent years, the monastery has become world-renowned for its high-quality recordings of traditional Byzantine chant in Greek and has a growing discography.
Hymns from the Psalter (1990)
O Pure Virgin (Agni Partheni) (1990)
Divine Liturgy (1999)
Great Vespers (1999)
Paraklesis (1999)
Service of Saint Simon (1999)
Sunday Matins (Orthros) (1999)
Service of St. Silouan the Athonite (2004)
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