Brief history of the PANAGIA SOUMELA monastery

The brilliant history of Panagia Soumela began, when Luke the Evangelist created the miraculous icon of her in the year 56 AD, which was also placed in a church in Athens until 380 AD.

The next stage was 386 AD, the are of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius the Great and the full glory of Byzantium, when the icon also "chose" to change residence to region of Pontus, in a miraculous way.

Pontian Hellenism - as incidentally the countless monuments which have been discouvered there testify, has for 3000 years, been writing its own brilliant history, a history parallel to that of mother Greece - and is gaining a particularly valuable symbol with the creation of the Holy Monastery at the hear of Mount Mela.

Here we should mention the Athenian monks Varnavas and Sophronios, who followed the course of the icon and became founders of the Holy Monastery. Second - Greece. Third in Melbourne Australia.

Context Adopted from http://www.pontos.org

 

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