Paisius Velichkovsky
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Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski was an Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian who helped spread staretsdom or the concept of the spiritual elder to the Slavic world. He is a pivotal figure in Orth
18th-century portrait of Paisius of Neamt.
The Way of a Pilgrim
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The Way of a Pilgrim, or The Pilgrim's Tale, is the English title of a 19th-century Russian work, recounting the narrator's journey as a mendicant pilgrim while practicing the Jesus Prayer. The pilgri
Paisius Velichkovsky
…Paisius' disciple Dosifei of Kiev. Paisius died on November 15, 1794, at the age of seventy-two. One of the most famous books on the Jesus Prayer is the Way of the Pilgrim. This book is the story of the spiritual experiences of an unidentified pilgrim who wanders from place to place in Ukraine and Russia in the nineteenth…
Cover and title page of an 1884 edition
Christ Pantocrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia 2744 x 2900 pixels 3.1 MB