Karmilio Oros
Karmilio Oros | |
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Mount Carmel Καρμήλιο Όρος | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 887 m (2,910 ft) |
Prominence | 887 m (2,910 ft) |
Coordinates | 40°07′45″N 24°18′41″E / 40.1290864°N 24.3113586°E[1] |
Naming | |
Etymology | Mount Carmel |
Geography | |
Country | Greece |
Region | Skete of St. Basil or Stavros |
Access | Men only |
Karmilio Oros (
.The peak can be reached via
Its summit is also known as the "peak of the Prophet Elijah."[5] One of its historical residents included Saint Gerasimus of Kefalonia (1506–79), who for 17 years lived "a heroic existence, battling constantly against nature’s elements – wind, thunder and lightning, rain, snow, frost – and against the full guile of demons" on Karmilion.[6]: 355 Another historical resident included "the Confessor Father Neophytos who lived on Karmelion (a peak west of Kerasia and above the desert of St. Basil)."[6]: 56 [7]: 166
In literature
The peak has been mentioned in medieval Byzantine texts, including in the Life of
After going up two or three times from the Panagia and being granted this experience, he [Maximos the Hutburner] then went down from there and, going to Karmelion, found a solitary elder there and told him about his vision.
— p. 479, Chapter 9, Life of Maximos the Hutburner by Theophanes of Vatopedi
References
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- ^ Dawkins, Richard McGillivray (1936). The Monks of Athos. London: G. Allen & Unwin, p. 259.
- ^ a b Kotsonis, Priestmonk Ioannikios (2003). An Athonite Gerontikon: Sayings and Stories of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos (2nd ed.). Koufalia, Thessaloniki: Holy Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas.
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