The contents of the book are as follows:
NOTE 7 ANTIPROLOGIKO
PREFACE 9
INTRODUCTION 13
PART A
Prominent Hermits of Mount Athos (old and younger)
CHAPTER I.
Prominent Hermits who hermitage around Athos (old Fathers Saints) 29
The Saint Peter the Athonite 29
The ascetic Sun-Isaiah 31
The Saint Maximus the Kafsokalyvitis 32
The Saint Nephon the Kafsokalyvitis 35
The Saint Gerontios the Vouleftiriotis 37
The Saints Dionysius and orator Mitrophanes Spiritual 37
The Saint Nilus the Myrrh 39
The Saint Gregory Vyzantios 40
The Saint Nicephorus Recluse 41
The Saint Akakios the Kafsokalyvitis 41
The Saint Theodore in the Spot 41
CHAPTER II.
Younger fathers of Athos desert 43
The Elder Joachim spilaiotis 43
Elder Pachomius the spilaiotis and anchorites 44
The Father Serapion the Russian. The hermit of Mount Athos 44
Elder Gerasimos the Karmilitis 46
Monk Seraphim (another hermit of Mount Athos) 48
PART II
Surviving stories on unsung Hermits of Mount Athos
- On the first Hesychasts of Athos. (From the life of St. Athanasius
Athonite) 53 - The strange wandering hermit. (From the life of St. Maximus
Kafsokalyvia) 54 - The seven unsung Hermits of Mount Athos 55
- Vision and smell in the "Sun Isaiah." (From the life of St. Martyr Constantine on Agarinon) 57
- The Giannakopoulos silent Ascetics 59
- The cave shrine of three 61
- Discovery holy relic at the bottom Hello 63
- The mysterious naked Elder 65
- The Spiritual Father Gregory and secret Hermits 67
- The three anchorites 70
- Naked saints "Kryon Water" 73
- The cave Evlogitarion 76
- "Follow us" 80
- "You, brother, are intended to Cloister of Xenophon" 82
- Ten Hermits in "Holy Stone" 84
- Another mysterious cave in the "Sun Isaiah" 86
- About twelve of Athos shoeless 88
- Appearance and sulfur cave relic 91
- The invisible without dwelling Hermits 93
- The Cross of "fragrant" 96
- The unnamed 98 retreatants Athos
- The Hermit and nuts 101
- 12 Theory of mysterious monks in cave 102
- Scent of the "Hello" the Laura 104
- Fragrance and "Hello" Kafsokalyvia 105
- The "wild beasts" of Mary 106
- The spilaiotis priest Leontius and 12 anonymous 110 retreatants
- Eerie Hermits 112
- Bare feet footprints in the snow 114
- Beat the bell to prevent the "bare Ascetics" 116
- Narratives of Elder Gerasimos Hymnographer 118
- For ten years took 120 water
- Bowed before the party stood 122 feet
- Asking for alms to feed 124 hermits
- The two half-naked hermit 125
- Meeting with submissive retreatants 126
- The cave of "gladness" 127
- The "Stravolagkada" 129
- The Hermits of Lefke. 131
- For the invisible holy hermits. (Ex Letters of Elder Joseph
Hesychast) 133 - Portions sulfur bread lost 135
- Mysterious Monks in "Babylas" 136
- The nocturnal naked hermit 138
- 140 stories a monk
- "As shadow disappeared" 142
- An unknown makrygenis Hermit 143
- Matins for the Divine Liturgy and the Divine Metalipsin 144
- Disappearances Monks 146
- Testimony of two Cypriot pilgrims 148
- Strange nighttime visitors to "Virgin" 150
- Unknown to hermit up "KOUKOUZELI" 152
- Another naked hermit in the woods 154
- Two modern hermit 155
- Theory three rasoforon the top 161
- Modern spilaiotis Ascetic 163
- Discovery Cave and Bone anonymous holy ascetics 164
- Unknown hermit between Athos and Antiathona 171
PART C
Annex similar bizarre narratives outside Mount Athos
A similar narration and Mount Sinai 175
B. Such situations and stories and Agiofarago Crete 180
PART IV
Supplementary data associated with monasticism - erimitismo.
Verses of the Holy Scriptures, which praised the erimitiki and quieting life 189
From the Old Testament 189
From the New Testament 195
On peace (of the Fathers quotations) 201
Generally about monasticism 207
Various kinds of asceticism and monasticism 210 branches
About 215 Erimitismou
Craving the holy Fathers for the desert 217
Excerpts of some reasons Fathers and virtuous contemporaries Elders on Hermit
and ascetic life and hesychastic 219
Just for erimitismo of Mount Athos 233
PART V
ANNEX PHOTO 241
ANTI CHOICE
Logos II in teleiothentas Father (Father's Prayer of Saint Ephrem the Syrian) 247