Saint Silouan the AthoniteIn the autumn of 1892 a young Russian peasant named Simeon from the province of Tambov was drawn to that ancient repository of Orthodox spirituality, Mt Athos. He had done his military service and now came to the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon to embark on long years of spiritual combat lasting until his death in 1938. Although he was unlearned and ignorant in the ordinary sense, tireless inner strivings gave him authentic personal experience of

Stephen De Young

Arsenius the Great

the “rule” which governs how Divine worship is offered in the church

by Oswin Craton

He was ordained comparatively late in life

On returning to France in 1947 he edited and published the writings Silouan had entrusted to him

The lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra

deeply reflected and profoundly wise words

on the meaning of art

Prison was a spiritual academy for him

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their lives and deeds have largely been forgotten