This website's history of Mt Athos

[David Goldfrank]

I was surprised to find the Council of 843 called "Ecumenical" in the presentation of when hermits first settled at Athos. I thought that this was just a regional council as in the article posted on http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/articles/article8071.asp.

But I love the legends concerning the origins of the Holy Mountain as a monastic politeia.

[Paul Cowan]

Forgive me, I am not responding to the initial post but wanted to keep the topic on websites with history of the Holy Mountain.

July 27 is the feast day of St. Panteleimon and I was doing some study on him and the monastery on Athos. I came across this site from New Advent (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02047b.htm) ( A RC site) and was astounded that no where in the seemingly mostly accurate and detailed history given is not one mention of Orthodoxy. It does refer to the closest RC SEE of Hierissus and though admittantly says the monks refused to join with the Latin church they eagerly embraced the Turks instead.

Reading the article has the "feel" of repulsion to it. As if this group on the Mountain is disdained and this is a poor attempt at describing them from a distance. It is cold and dispassionate and just inaccurate and wrong.

I find this type of creative history disturbing as only people who know "the Truth" can understand how wrong this article is. What recourse is there to the author or this site to encourage them to get it right? Or am I just blowing in the wind.

Paul

PS addtion: Here is another site (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Mount_Athos)seemingly just a copy cat site of the above.

[Patrick Lee]

Reading the article has the "feel" of repulsion to it. As if this group on the Mountain is disdained and this is a poor attempt at describing them from a distance. It is cold and dispassionate and just inaccurate and wrong.

I find this type of creative history disturbing as only people who know "the Truth" can understand how wrong this article is. What recourse is there to the author or this site to encourage them to get it right? Or am I just blowing in the wind.

Paul


This is just an electronic rendition of the old Catholic Encyclopeida ca. the early 1900's if memory serves. It just is what it is. A very Vatican I style text.