Saint Paisios the Athonite

“So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."”

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The Patriarchate of Moscow and the POKROB Film Studio deliver to global Orthodoxy a documentary series of six episodes with a total duration of five hours on the holy life and work of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos.

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Season 1

1 Episodes

EP 01

EP 1

01.Episode 1: Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, and Military Service

2012-11-05

01.Episode 1: Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, and Military Service

Aired 2012-11-05

The first episode is dedicated to the beginning of the earthly life of Elder Paisios – his birth in the village of Faros in Turkey, his baptism by the monastic Saint Arsenios the Cappadocian (1840–1924), his childhood & youth in the hills of Konitsa, and his service in the Army during the Civil War (1946-49).

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