The skete of Kafsokalyvia

The skete of Agia Triada-Kafsokalyvia (Καυσοκαλύβια)

The Skete of Kaufsokalyvia is located in a steep, narrow and rocky landscape, at the south-eastern end of the Athonian peninsula, within the territory of Megisti Lavra to which it is administratively subordinate,

History

The hermitage as an organized monastic settlement was founded at the beginning of the 18th century, by the holy Akakios the Younger of Kausokalyvitis (1630–1730). 1745 is considered to be the founding date, when the dominant monastery of Lavra, after the reconstruction of its Sunday chapel, issued a deed of recognition.

The name Kawsokalyvia was traditionally given by Maximus Kawsokalyvitis (†1365 approx.), who had the habit of changing his place of residence and burning his previous wooden hut every time he moved, until he ended up in this place in the 14th century. Maximus acquired a great reputation and gradually many ascetics gathered around him. In fact, his fame was an occasion for two emperors, John V Palaiologos and John VI Kantakouzinos, to visit him at his hermitage (code 25 Xenophon monastery). However, the region of Kausokalyvia, barren and arid, was not easy to accommodate a numerous settlement, but always attracted individual ascetics. In this arid place, Saint Akakios (1725–1740) miraculously opened a rich spring from a deep cave. The presence of water brought numerous monks to the site, with Acacius also leaving many disciples. The temporary church built by him, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was rebuilt in 1745, as a Sunday church of the hermitage. This Sunday was told from the workshop of the hieromonk Parthenios the Painter from Agrafa (third quarter of the 18th century), and from the monk Mitrophanis from Vizyi in Thrace (1820). Its iconostasis is carved in wood and the portable icons are of Paleologian and post-Byzantine art.

At that time it had 30 huts, inhabited by ascetic groups of two or three people. Of these, nine had small chapels. Among them, the hut of Agios Ioannis theologos stands out, with an excellent small chapel recorded by Mitrophanis of Chios in 1776. Today Skiti has about 40 huts. Among them is the iconographic house of the Ioasafians.

The library

The Library of the Sunday Church of Agia Triad of Kaufsokalyvia was founded in the first decades of the 18th century. In her collection there is a handwritten catalog (no. 123), with the title "A Brief Catalog of the Books of the common library of the sept Kyriakon (the main church) of the holy Skete of the Kausokalyvians. Divided into two parts. And the first part includes the manuscripts, and the second part the printed materials." It was compiled in 1915 by the then librarian hieromonk Ioasaph of the brotherhood of the Ioasafians. It consists of 45 leaves and records both the manuscripts and the then surviving forms of the skete. Its basic core is often enriched by new acquisitions from donations or from huts that are emptied and occasionally deserted. Among the new acquisitions is the library of Charitonos the intellectual, who lived in the 19th century. They were donated to the Kyriakon by his subordinate monk Athanasios.

Manuscripts- Codices

The collection of manuscripts of the Kyriacon of the Skete includes 279 codices, with three of them on parchment.

Spyridon Lambros at the end of the 19th century. identified and described 23 codices, while Evlogios Kourilas in 1930 recorded a total of 86. Evlogios Kourilas included in his catalog, in addition to the Kyriakon codices, the manuscripts of some huts of the Scete. These are the huts of the brotherhood of the Joasaphians, John the Theologian, Saint Methodios, Saint Eustathius, Saint Akakios, Saint Panteleimon, the Genesis of the Virgin Mary, the Akathist Hymn, the Dormition of the Virgin Mary and the Transfiguration. Some of these manuscripts that belonged to a hut during the Kurila period, during the second half of the 20th century. they ended up in the Kyriakon collection. At the same time, from 1999 the monk Patapios Kaufsokalyvitis started an effort to reconstruct the library, which resulted in its enrichment with several additional uncatalogued manuscripts. In the Catalog he published (see Bibliography), after drafting the two published catalogs, Lambros and Kurilas, codes 87–242 are described. The Codexes also include those who until 1931 belonged to the Kalyvi of Akathistus Hymn. The rest, up to 279, are described in a Supplementary Catalog by the same author (see Bibliography).

The oldest codex dates back to the 10th century. and it is parchment. Two other parchments are from the 11th century. Most are placed between the 18th and 20th centuries. (14th: 4, 15th: 5, 17th: 7).

In terms of content, the collection mainly includes hagiographic, theological, hymnological and historical works.

The parchment codex 1 is the most valuable relic of the Scete. It dates back to the 11th century. and on its 361 pages it includes 31 Speeches and Speeches of John Chrysostom. It was written by the calligrapher Ignatius in the Great Lavra.

Printed Books.

The collection of printed books of the Kyriakon of the Skete of Kaufsokalyvia up to 1900 includes 648 titles. For the publications after 1901, the librarian monk Patapios prepares a special catalog.

The oldest form is from 1516 and is an edition of Gregory of Nazianzus' Orationes, printed in Venice in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri.

Notable monks

Neophyte Kausokalyvitis (1689–1784).

He was born in Patras to Hellenized Christian parents of Jewish origin, with intense religious zeal. He was a student of Evgenios Voulgaris. He was invited to be the first to direct the Athoniada school. After three years, as Evgenios Voulgaris writes, "he prefers to quarry at Kausokalybion, smoothing his trachea and apocryphal cell, rather than toil in the school and how to give birth to Abraham from these stones".

He was the theoretical leader and protagonist of the Kollyvada faction. Because of his ideas, around 1760, he was forced to leave Mount Athos. He first passed through Constantinople and finally settled in the Transdanubian Hegemony as a teacher, where he died in bankruptcy.

In 1759, the first work printed by the printing press of the Great Lavra was the Election of the Neophyte Psalter.

Neophytos was recognized by the scholars of Europe as an excellent grammarian, but he also gave examples of excellent performance in philological criticism. He is the first to present the patented theory that the writings attributed to Macarius the Egyptian are of Marsalian origin and belong to Simeon of Mesopotamia, a theory that was to prevail in patrological research after 150 years. Also interesting are his apologetic writings, of which the main one is addressed to the Enlightenment with the title Philosopher or Theist. When in 1768 he published in Bucharest, in 1298 pages, "Theodore's Grammatical introduction of four in four, Legend", Jean-Baptiste de Villeoison characterized it as "recentium graecorum in grammatica facile princeps".

Jonas the Kausokalyvite (†1765).

He authored a Collection of synaxares and asmatic sequences of neomartyrs. An idiographic codex has been preserved, which belonged to the hut of Agios Akakios of Kaufsokalyvia (no. 2), and today it is treasured in the monastery of Megistis Lavra. Jonas also translated into modern Greek several of the martyrdoms compiled by John Karyofyllis (1693), which are contained in all the editions of the New Martyrology published by Nicodemus the Saint. He also composed a Mass for his teacher Akakios Kausokalyvitis and a Canon for the neo-martyr Nikolaos Pantopolis. Finally, an Anthology of Prayers is preserved in the autograph Codex 74 of Kausokalyvia, as well as a work with Types of Epistles (Code 80 of Kausokalyvia).

Theoklitos Karatzas the Byzantine (1728–after 1783).

Author of a collection of Rules that he paraphrased into modern Greek, a work that remains unpublished. It has the title: The most accurate and richest law, already translated into a common language for the benefit of reformers.

In addition to the Law Code, he also paraphrased the Ascetic Terms of the Great Basil. He also composed church services and hymns.

Raphael Akarnan the teacher (1714–1804).

Calligrapher, epigraphist, hymn writer and one of the most prolific scholars of the Kaufsokalyvians. In 1771 Caesarios Daponte commissioned him to sculpt Rodon's book Amaranton. He paraphrased into plain Greek the life of St. Lazarus of Galisiot and the life of Gregory Palamas, written by Philotheos Kokkinos. His ten-verse heroic elegy is found in the Canon of Christophoros Prodromitis, published in Constantinople in 1800.

Methodius Byzantius Makrygenis.

Poet. He composed verses in Turkish, 112 verses about Panagia Prussos, and Diet in the life of man for 157 verses.

Euthymios of Macedon/Trebizoundios (d. 1718–1798).

His works are written in the vernacular. The Bee is preserved in an idiosyncratic codex, i.e. a book containing mostly and useful things, all through the verses of various political simpletons.

Saint Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kafsokalyvite
Maximos Kafsokalyvitis
Neophytos Kafsokalyvitis
Akakios Kafsokalyvitis
Isidoros Kafsokalyvitis
Niphon Kafsokalyvitis
Hadji-Georgis the Athonite
Hieromonk Maximos Kafsokalyvitis

Publications

ΙΕΡΟΜΟΝΑΧΟΣ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΣ ΚΑΥΣΟΚΑΛΥΒΙΤΗΣ, "ΑΣΚΗΤΙΚΕΣ ΜΟΡΦΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΗΓΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΑΘΩ", (2001)
Hieromonk Maximos Kafsokalyvitis "Ascetic Figures and Stories from Athos."
This book is the gate to the sacred Mountain. The holiness of Athos is not in the grand monasteries, it is in the lives of thousands of humble monks who lived their lives praying to God in the desert. This book is worth more than a ton of golden relics. I speak with Father Maximos. He would like to have his book translated. Please reply in the Comments below.

Patapios Kafsokalivitis "Παταπίου μοναχοῦ Καυσοκαλυβίτου, «Ἐπιγραφές τῆς Σκήτης Ἁγίας Τριάδος Καυσοκαλυβίων»"
https://www.academia.edu/s/ed4b148f92?source=link

Παταπίου μοναχοῦ Καυσοκαλυβίτου Ο ΑΓΙΟΡΕΙΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΟΜΟΝΑΧΟΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ Ο ΕΚ ΦΟΥΡΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΟ. ΟΙ ΝΕΟΤΕΡΕΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΕΣ. . ΟΙ ΤΟΙΧΟΓΡΑΦΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΣΚΗΤΗΣ ΚΑΥΣΟΚΑΛΥΒΙΩΝ

List of cells in Kafsokalyvia

Ag. Georgios (Αγ Γεωργίου)
Ypapanti tou Christou (Υπαπαντής του Χριστού)
Analypseos (Αναλήψεως)
Neomartyres (Νεομαρτύρων)
Kimiseos Agias Annis (Κοιμήσεως Αγίας Αννης)
Ag. Efstathios (Αγ Ευσταθίου)
Ag. Dimitrios (Αγ Δημητρίου)
Ag. Georgios (Αγ Γεωργίου)
Archangeli (Αρχαγγέλων)
Ag. Methodios (Αγ Μεθοδίου)
Ag. Pachomios (Αγ Παχωμίου)
Zoodochos Pigi (Ζωοδόχου Πηγής)
Ag. Charalambos (Αγ Χαραλάμπους)
Ag. Maximos (Αγ Μαξίμου)
Evangelismos (Ευαγγελισμού)
Genesion Theotokou (Γενεσίου Θεοτόκου)
Ag. Skepi (Αγ Σκεπής)
Ag. Pateres (Αγιορειτών Πατέρων)
Ag. Akakios (Αγ Ακακίου)
Ag. Panteleimonon (Αγ Παντελεήμονος)
Ag. Ioasaf (Αγ Ιωασάςο)
Ag. Symeon (Αγ Συμεών)
Imionos (Ημίονος)
Ag. Ioannis o Theologos (Αγ Ιωάννου του Θεολόγου)
Isodia Theotokou (Εισοδίων Θεοτόκου)
Ag. Apostoli (Αγ Αποστόλων)
Kimisis Theotokou (Κοιμήσεως Θεοτόκου)
Metamorphoseos (Μεταμορφώσεως)
Treis Ierarches (Τριών Ιεραρχών)
Evangelismos (Ευαγγελισμου

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