Pilgrimage to Holy Mountain 2

Wikipedia map of Greece, showing Agion Oros (Holy Mountain Province) in red.


Pilgrimage to Holy Mountain

The Greeks have invented a great idea for taking care of their elderly men.

Holy Mountain Province is not only an extended “home for Elderly male Greeks”, but may also be a spirit-enhancing refuge for them.

Of course old Greek men have all had years of life experience on the outside and have the useful skills which have allowed them to survive for a long lifetime.

Most of these skills are important for any community’s survival—trades such as cook, carpenter, fisherman, mechanic, even artist and musician and, most important for the continuity of Holy Mountain–– priests and religious men.

Now there seems to be, by design, a special monastery and monastic community for every kind of man and to make Holy Mountain a perfect refuge for old men, no women (old or young) are allowed.

Holy Mountain Province is a religious community, understand, ladies, so it is relatively OK.

And though no females are allowed, the whole province is dedicated to that great mythic female, the ever-virgin Mother of God, Mary.

Tomasito, 2009

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