Gregoriou Monastery
Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece
The Holy Monastery of Saint Gregory (Greek: Ιερά Μονή Οσίου Γρηγορίου), also known as Gregoriou Monastery (Greek: Μονή Γρηγορίου) is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The Monastery ranks seventeenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries. It is built by the sea, on the southeastern side of the peninsula, neighboring the monasteries of Simonopetras and Dionysiou. Gregoriou is very much a pilgrim friendly monastery with a strong sense of pastoral care. Pilgrim visitors are numerous and well provided for. The Monastery is completely girt by the sea, built on a corner of land jutting into the sea, with only steep craggy rocks backed up behind it.
Archimandrite George (Kapsanis) published a book, Theosis: The True Purpose of Human Life, here at Mount Athos in the Gregorious Monastery. Four editions exist, the first being in 1992 and the most recent in 2006. The book discusses about Theosis, the Eastern Orthodox idea of divinization.
History
The Monastery was founded in 1310 by Saint Gregory of Sinai the Younger (feast day December 7), a Serbian monk that dwelled in a cave, which still exists, about 20 minutes up from the Monastery.
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