The Elder Ieronymos of Aegina, With Memoirs of the Elder Ieronymos
By Peter Botsis Translated from the Greek by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery
“[This work is...]the biography of the Elder Ieronymos the Cappadocian of Aegina, one of the two great Elders of the Jesus Prayer in the twentieth century in the land of Greece, the other being the Elder Joseph the Hesychast of the Holy Mountain. Both were very strong in the interior prayer of the heart. They were contemporaries and knew each other; from time to time they exchanged notes on their experiences of the Jesus Prayer. [...]The Elder Ieronymos was a very amazing man, like one of the ancients, the great Desert Fathers. Wherever he lived—in his beloved Cappadocia, at the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist by the Jordan, which was his domicile during his prolonged pilgrimage in the Holy Land, in Constantinople where he served as deacon and preacher to his Cappadocian and Anatolian compatriots who were merchants, or in Aegina where he lived the last four decades of his life—he praised the Name of the Lord in the depth of his heart and mind in deep stillness. He perpetually stood in the ‘house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.’” —“Introduction”
CONTENTS
Introduction Chapter 1 Testimony of Sanctity Chapter 2 The Great Mainland Chapter 3 God-Pleasing Upbringing Chapter 4 Deacon Chapter 5 At the Holy Places Chapter 6 Constantinople Chapter 7 Greece Chapter 8 Aegina Chapter 9 A Priest Called by God Chapter 10 The Angelic Life Chapter 11 Suffering the Things of Men Chapter 12 To the Mountain that is Holy Chapter 13 Experiences of a God-seer Chapter 14 Spiritual Solicitude Chapter 15 No Man on Earth Loves Me Like Father Ieronymos Chapter 16 Example of Humblemindedness Chapter 17 Lover of Tradition Chapter 18 In Mine Affliction Thou Hast Enlarged Me Chapter 19 The Hermitage Chapter 20 Daily Ministry Chapter 21 My Strength is Made Perfect in Weakness Chapter 22 Last Struggles Chapter 23 Departure Epilogue Appendix Memoirs of the Elder Ieronymos of Aegina Miracles of the Elder Ieronymos Service to the Elder Ieronymos of Aegina
Item Number: BKHT815 Publication Data: Boston, MA: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 2007 Format: softcover Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions (l × w × h): 19.7 cm × 13.3 cm × 2.0 cm Additional Information: two-color printing, black-and-white illustrations ISBN 13: 978‒0‒943405‒14‒8 ISBN: 0‒943405‒14‒9
