Father Artemios chanting. Mt Athos. Megisti Lavra

Father Artemios chanting.
Mt Athos. Megisti Lavra.
https://athosforum.org/Father-Artemios-chanting-Mt-Athos-Megisti-Lavra
Suddenly the monotonous tenor chant was interrupted by a baritone voice, cello and bugle, what an old monk says to God. I left my hiding place in the chapel and walked into the main church. I stood in front of the cantor absorbing the miracle, tears nose snuffles, I wiped my face inside my elbow. After the liturgy I walked up to him and said thank you.

Ah I am an old man now he said and walked away.

A few days later he came to church and chanted again and again I shed tears of ecstasy. After liturgy he came up to me and said "That was for you".

Father Artemios, second in the hierarchy after the abbot. A great cantor, Firfiris and Makavos class.

Before long we became friends. He shared his cooking with me and offered me Metaxa, and I offered medical advice.

This video was recorded the day before I left Megisti Lavra never to return. Abbot Prodromos brutally attacked me and ordered me to leave on account of my book on Lavra.