L’Athos e la Filocalia

Mount Athos and the Philokalia belong to each other on the basis of that mysterious pact that binds spaces and words, geography and spirituality. In fact, it was Mount Athos and its spiritual context that attracted people over the centuries who, right here, wanted to live and embody the teachings of the Fathers and ancient masters, collecting, transcribing, elaborating and preserving their texts. And it was always on Mount Athos that the philokalic authors par excellence lived and wrote: Nicephorus the Solitary, Gregory of Sinai and Gregory Palamas. Here, Paisij Veličkovskij, Macarius of Corinth and Nicodemus the Hagiorite stopped and, precisely on the basis of the texts found in the libraries of the monasteries and in the hermitages of Athos, they prepared the Greek texts (1782) and edited the Slavonic translation (1793) of the Philokalia. Finally, thanks to the spiritual irradiation of the Ethos in modern culture, the translations of the Philokalia into modern languages ​​were born.