Agiou Pavlou monastery

The monastery Agiou Pavlou (Greek: Μονή Αγίου Παύλου, Paul Monastery) is one of the twenty Orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos.

It is located in the southwest of the peninsula and occupies the 14th place in the ranking of the monasteries. It is the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple ( Candlemas Christ ) consecrated the Votivfest on February 2nd (15th Feb). 1990, it counted 91 monks.

History

The monastery dates back to at least the 10th century.

Robert Curzon, who traveled 1834-1837 Egypt, Syria, Albania and the Athos peninsula in search of ancient manuscripts, and his journey in his book Visits to Monasteries in the Levant (1849 ) described the mountain visited Athos in 1837 and got there by the abbot, among other things an illuminated Gospel Book Bulgarian dating from the fourteenth century, given that today is in the British Library, the so-called Tetraevangeliar of Tsar Ivan Alexander. During his visit to the monastery in October 1845, the Bishop took Porfirii Uspenskii ( 1804-1885 ) the 12 of his opinion, the most valuable leaves of the Radoslav Gospel and gave them to his collection with the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. The remaining pages are lost in the monastery today.