Saint Paisios: From Farasa to Heaven

Feb 10, 2022

The birth of Saint Paisios coincides with the uprooting of the Greeks from Cappadocia. His family, along with all the inhabitants of the Greek villages, takes the road of refuge to Greece. Their spiritual guide is the old man Arsenios.

Feb 17, 2022

The uprooted from Cappadocia arrive in Piraeus, expecting to find mother Greece who will embrace them, but they encounter many difficulties and problems.

Feb 24, 2022

40 days after the settlement in the castle of Corfu, the old man Arsenios sleeps in the hospital of the city. His passing turns everything in the community upside down. Tensions, quarrels and disputes begin.

Mar 3, 2022

Prodromos faces great difficulties in keeping the villagers together. His family, along with 50 other families, finally arrive at the place where they will put down roots. In the land of Konitsa.

Mar 10, 2022

Little Arsenios chants his first prayers, grows up and, as a refugee child, encounters his first difficulties with his peers.

Mar 17, 2022

Arsenios at the age of 12 chooses not to go to high school but to learn the carpenter's art in order to help his parents. At the age of 16, a cousin sows doubt in his soul about the divinity of Christ.

Mar 24, 2022

Arsenios is called to join the army. He turns to the Virgin Mary and begs her to help him not to kill a man.

Mar 31, 2022

Evlogia has a big surprise. Arsenios returns home and tells her that he has been discharged from the army. Her joy will not last long, because he announces her that he is leaving for Mount Athos.

Apr 7, 2022

Arsenios having fulfilled all his obligations to his family, he leaves for Mount Athos for a permanent stay. Under the guidance of Abbot Kallinikos the young novice becomes a petty monk and takes the name Paisios.

Jan 24, 2025

Father Paisios gives his struggle, as a monk now, in the Monastery of Filotheos, on Mount Athos. His mother is also fighting her own "battle" as she tries to reconcile her deep faith in God and her love for her son. In Father Paisios, the desire to go to the most deserted place on Mount Athos, Katounakia, and to practice there is growing. But a vision of the Virgin Mary leads him back to Konitsa, to the Stomio Monastery, to renovate the monastery burnt down by the Germans. So, in July 1958, he returned to Konitsa and without passing by his house he went directly to the monastery.

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