Athos felt that he was called upon to give an explanation of what was passing. |
They feared that the Greeks might use the name dispute as an excuse for expelling all the Russians from Athos. |
In the Hesychast controversy he took the side of the monks of Athos, but refused to agree to the theory of the uncreated light. |
However, my dear Athos, you have only to speak, to tell me what you want. |
Caught in a passing glance, Mount Athos rises in the distance and Ithaca is depicted as an alien landscape of jagged rocks before an endless horizon. |
The Hesychasts were, in the Eastern Church, supporters of the ascetic mysticism propagated by the monks of Mount Athos in the XIVth Century. |