Talk:St. Panteleimon Monastery

Suggested merge

Panteleimon points to saint panteilon - are they the same, and if so what is the signficiance of the different names and should it be brought out on this page? Midgley 22:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• 'Rossikon' appears to be a nickname for the monastery, meaning 'Russian' because it is a Russian Orthodox monastery among a Greek community. This article should be merged to Monastery of St Panteleimon, which is the monastery's full and proper name. Jack1956 (talk) 10:44, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Articles merged and 'Rossikon' redirected by me. Jack1956 (talk) 23:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

• The relevant information was merged by me some time ago into one article. 'Rossikon' is not the full and accepted name for this monastery..it is a nickname meaning 'Russian' because the monks there were Russian rather than Greek. As the work has been done and the articles successfully and accurately merged I don't see the point of bringing it up again.

I note that the Rossikon article was created by the editor who keeps reinstating the merge tag because the merge went the other way... a case of injured pride? It doesn't matter which is the older article, what matters is which is the more informative and accurate. Jack1956 (talk) 10:51, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

• I have remerged the Rossikon article back to this article for reasons stated in my edit. This article is more comprehensive and is better sourced and referenced. The 'Rossikon' article had already been merged here by a previous editor. The generally accepted name for the monastery is St Panteleimon - 'Rossikon' is not the monastery's accepted name - it is a nickname. Dreamspy (talk) 22:50, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

1913 attack on St. Panteleimonos monastery by marines sent by Czar Nicholas II on three Russian warships

The dramatic attack on this monastery was to put a stop to a group of Russian Orthodox monks who adhered to the practice of "Name Worshipping", repeating over and over again a prayer to the name of God saying "The name of God is God". In July of 1913 Archbishop Nikon of Vologda and an Officer Shipulinksy stormed the monastery using machine guns and water cannons forcing all the monks to come out of their cells and then be polled one by one as to whether or not they would renounce this heresy. Over 1,000 monks refused to renounce the belief in the holiness of the name of God and were taken away by the Russian marines to Odessa and later excommunicated and dispersed throughout Siberia.

This is all recounted in a book on the history of the Moscow School of Mathematics called "Naming Infinity; a True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity" published by Harvard University Press. It turns out that founders of the famous Moscow School of Mathematics were influenced significantly by some of the followers of the Name Worshippers.

It strikes me that this is worthy of inclusion in the history of the St. Panteleimons Monastery. Are there other accounts of this history that would include this dramatic event? John Gregory Dove (talk) 02:55, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

References

Name

• "Rossikon" (ca. 150)
• "St. Panteleimon Monastery" (ca. 50)
• "Agiou Panteleimonos monastery" (1)

Gbook hits. Moving to "St. Panteleimon Monastery".--Zoupan 07:09, 20 July 2015 (UTC)