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Dionysios of Olympos

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Subject Religion » Christianity

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631232032.2001.x


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Sixteenth-century ascetic and founder of Olympos monastery by Mount Olympos in Pieria; contemporary and friend of nikanor . Originally a teacher and calligrapher from Platina in Thessaly, he joined one of the Meteora monasteries, then moved to athos , and travelled widely as a pilgrim. Dionysios was elected abbot of Philotheou but left for Verroia after a dispute with the monastery's Bulgarian monks. Olympos monastery, where he ended his life, was a cultural centre for northern Greeks in the ottoman period; it was destroyed during the Second World War. Dionysios is commemorated on 22/23 January. See also holy mountains ; macedonia . ( 1988 ), Lives of the Monastery Builders . Buena Vista , Col. : Holy Apostles . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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