It was here, in this very first monastery of the order, that the saint wrote down his renowned rule, shaping a monastic life centered around prayer, work, studies and hospitality.While it was at ...

Hermits devoted to the isolated quest for God had inhabited the Syrian and Egyptian deserts since the fourth century. Subsequently, groups of anchorites introduced cenobitic monasticism, whose first ...

Saint Zosimas, Igumen of Solovki a great luminary of the Russian North, was the founder of cenobitic monasticism on Solovki Island. He was born in Novgorod diocese, in the village of Tolvui near Lake ...

In accord with the strict rule of cenobitic monastic life, introduced into his monastery by Saint Joasaph, the life of the monks was filled with prayer, abstinence and work. (Almost ninety years after ...