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Mount Athos
also: Афонская гора
The autonomous monastic peninsula in northern Greece, whose monasteries were the source of tokens -- threads, oil, relics -- popularly credited with healing power in Russian Orthodox folk piety.
Reading notes
- Surgery §31 from Mount Athos
The Orthodox monastic peninsula in northern Greece; threads, oil, and other tokens said to come from its monasteries were popularly credited with healing power in Russian folk piety.
- The Murder §31 the Holy Mountain of Athos
Matvei claims to have modeled his private prayer-room's rule of service on that of Mount Athos, the most rigorously monastic center of Orthodox observance -- a claim to authority for what was in fact a self-devised, unauthorized cult of personality, underscoring the gap between his invoked source and his actual practice.