The Celebration Of The
Thousand-Year Anniversary
Of The Monastery

In 1998, the Monastery celebrated the completion of one thousand years of uninterrupted life. In October 1998, during the festival of the Virgin Mary our Guide, a great celebration was held under the aegis of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaio. A Patriarchal Mass with a number of hierarchs as co-celebrants was conducted, among them the late Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Christodoulos. The Prime Minister and the President of the Hellenic Democracy attended the events, along with many other dignitaries and pilgrims.