Athanasius the Athonite

Athanasius the Athonite
(c. 920–1003)
   Saint and Order Founder.
   Athanasius was born in Trebizond. In 961 he established the first monastery on Mount Athos, a peninsula which juts out into the Aegean Sea. By the time of his death there were no fewer than fifty-eight communities on the mountain, of which he was Abbot-General. Today Mount Athos is regarded as a holy place in the Eastern Orthodox Church. There are twenty monasteries on the site; all women and female animals are forbidden entrance and the communities are the custodians of many important ancient manuscripts.
   R.M. Dawkins, The Monks of Athos (1936).

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