Saint Gregory Palamas and the Hesychast Tradition Friends of Mount Athos Association "Saint Athanasios the Athonite"
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Gallery

Photo, video and audio gallery

Photographs, videos and an audio recording from Vlatadon Monastery and the event.

A glowing lantern and tall cypress stand in front of a panoramic view of buildings and the sea.
The city and bay at dusk.
A dark book cover with gold lettering and a coloured historical map, behind glass.
Ptolemy’s Geography on display.
Two columns of Greek handwriting and numerical entries on a stained page with a damaged lower left edge.
A reproduced manuscript page of geographical entries.
A reproduced page with two columns of Greek handwriting, gold initials and a large damaged area along the right edge.
Handwritten geographical entries with decorative initials.
Open and closed books in two rows, with Greek, English, German and French titles, in a wooden glass-topped case.
Bible editions in several languages.
A grey SEPTUAGINTA volume, a blue Greek Bible and an open Greek page sit above smaller editions against a red backing.
The Septuagint alongside Greek and other Bible editions.
Open Greek pages beside the blue cover of The Way, with other Bibles and a gold-coloured New Testament below.
An open Book of Leviticus and modern Bible editions.
Two angels in red robes with blue wings stand beside a kneeling bearded figure in green vestments against a gold background.
Angels surround a figure in episcopal vestments.
Two tall angels flank a rocky landscape with a mother and infant in a cave, shepherds and animals; smaller angels hold a blue banner above.
The Nativity framed by two large angels.
Large angels in pale robes flank scenes around a cave beneath a blue banner, within a red border decorated with leaves.
The Nativity icon with a gold background and a border of leaves.
A man carries a child on his shoulders beside a woman in a blue cloak and a companion with a laden donkey; angels appear above.
Travellers with a child in an icon with a gold background.
Six drawings of plants showing roots, leaves and flowers above Greek and English text on a wall panel.
Botanical illustrations with bilingual explanations.
A Greek certificate headed ΤΙΜΗΣ ΕΝΕΚΕΝ, with a stamp and signature, partly covers an English book dedication.
A certificate of appreciation over an open dedication page.
An open illustrated book shows five reproductions of herbs, trees and people cutting branches or gathering fruit.
Plants and harvesting scenes in illustrated manuscripts.
Two open books above editions of Plato and Electra, beside a metal film tin.
A manuscript and old printed editions on display.
Open volumes display musical notation, dense dictionary columns, and Greek and Latin text in a red-lined case.
A music manuscript, a dictionary and other old books.
Black musical signs above syllables and red decorative initials fill the two pages of an open book.
An open manuscript of Byzantine music.
A cross and foliage in gold and silver-coloured embroidery, with beads and red decorative details on dark fabric.
An embroidered cover with a cross.
Orange wheat ears, red poppies and blue flowers in a vertical artwork with a dark wooden frame.
Wheat ears and wildflowers in a decorative composition.
Seen through glass, paved paths surround stone-edged beds with an olive tree, cypresses and shrubs.
The tree-filled courtyard seen through a window.
A white-bearded cleric in a black hat looks ahead while holding papers between two microphones.
A speaker with notes at the lecture table.
A seated cleric bends over his papers, with two microphones and a glass of water on the wooden table.
Reading from notes during the talk.
Viewed from above, people in curved rows of seats face a speaker seated beneath a blank projection screen.
The audience attends the lecture in the tiered hall.
A cleric with glasses holds a sheet over a carved table, with microphones and additional pages beside him.
The speaker reads from his notes.
A cleric looks down at papers held in both hands, with two empty wooden chairs behind him.
Notes in the speaker’s hands.
A paved courtyard with white sacks and a cypress tree, with city lights and the bay in the distance.
The paved courtyard overlooking the city at dusk.
A paved path slopes between trees and a stone arcade towards a glowing lantern, with the city and sea beyond.
Stone arches along the lamplit path.
Tall trees on the left and a row of arches on the right frame a path reflecting yellow light, with a view of the bay.
The paved path between cypresses and the stone arcade.
A tall cypress in the centre, a glowing lantern on the right and illuminated buildings around the bay beneath a cloudy blue sky.
A lantern and cypress above the city lights.
Yellow light falls across the edge of the paving, while a cypress stands in front of the city and sea.
An evening view of the bay from the stone courtyard.
A stone arched gateway with a Transfiguration mosaic above an iron gate decorated with crosses; paving and trees are visible inside.
The gate of Vlatadon Monastery with the Transfiguration mosaic.
A gateway of stone and red brick, topped by a cross, with a mosaic of three figures above the opening and two imperial figures on either side; a red car stands on the right.
The inner face of the gate of Vlatadon Monastery.
A full-length mosaic of Andronikos Palaiologos wearing a crown and richly decorated imperial robes, with a double-headed eagle in a circular panel above.
A mosaic of Andronikos Palaiologos at the gate of Vlatadon Monastery.
Mosaics of Andronikos Palaiologos and Anna Palaiologina of Savoy flank the gate; the street, a building and part of the city walls are visible through the opening.
The gate mosaics with a view towards the street.
Anna Palaiologina of Savoy wears a crown and imperial robes and holds a cross-topped sceptre, beneath a circular mosaic of a white cross on red; her figure is reflected in the roof of a red car.
A mosaic of Anna Palaiologina of Savoy at the monastery gate.
A semicircular mosaic shows Saint Gregory Palamas holding a book in the centre, Dorotheos on the left with a model church and Markos on the right with a scroll, above an iron gate decorated with crosses.
Saint Gregory Palamas with Dorotheos and Markos Vlattis in the gate mosaic.

Audio file

Audio recording of the lecture “Saint Gregory Palamas and the hesychast tradition on Mount Athos and in Thessaloniki,” delivered at Vlatadon Monastery on March 31, 2025.

Open recording on Dropbox