maxi-catalogue 2018 New publications from Alexander Press coming later in 2018: Archimandrite Vasileios Selected Writings; Published in the Mount Athos Series by Alexander Press, 1996 to 2017; with other selected writings. 3 volumes in a boxed set. See pages 92–93 for more information. Jean-Claude Larchet Jean-Claude Larchet The Spiritual Unconscious Translated from the original French by G. Jean Champoux. Alexander Press Montréal, a.d. 2018 Georgios I. Mantzaridis Innovation and Tradition Translated from the original Greek by Fr. Peter Chamberas, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Alexander Press 2875 Douglas Avenue, Montréal, Québec H3R 2C7 ANADA TEL.: (514) 738-5517 OR (514) 738-4018 TOLL FREE: (866) 303-5517 FAX: (514) 738-4718 E-MAIL: [email protected] [email protected] www.alexanderpress.com 2 NOW AVAILABLE FROM Alexander Press Presenting the”Ark of Orthodoxy”, the Beauty of Greece PUBLISHED BY Publications MILITOS Koropi, Attica, Greece, 2006 ORDER FRom Dual Greek-English text Alexander Press Hard bound, 752 pages $ 00 ISBN: 978-960-8460-95-9 70 ΑΓΙΟ ΟΡΟΣ 365 So near and yet so remote would be an apt description of Mount MOUNT ATHOS Athos. So near because it can be reached in a matter of hours PHAIDON HADJIANTONIOU, from a modem hub like Athens. So remote because it represents GABRIEL PENTZIKIS a world outside our world, a state which opposes any notion of a temporal state, a community which excludes and at the same The result of the time embraces all, a society which refutes and at the same time synergistic efforts 0f confirms the tenets of our secular society. artist photographers and Of the numerous monastic enclaves which emerged over scholars on the Holy the centuries in the Christian East, Mount Athos is the only Mountain, the “Garden one that survives intact and active to this day. Mount of the Virgin”, gives the Athos, the Holy Mountain, is often referred to as the “Ark of wider public, particularly Orthodoxy”, and indeed like another Noah’s Ark it preserves women readers, a feeling an extraordinary, almost inconceivable diversity of creation. of the fragrance not only . More importantly, it also preserves a dimension of human of the natural beauty but existence which is latent and dormant in modern man’s also of the spirituality and consciousness, namely the possibility that through the grace of mystical charm of this God, man may transcend his nature and become deified. holy place. —Gabriel Nicos Pentzikis 3 ΕΛΛΑΔΑ 365 GREECE IOLE VIGGOPOULOS Visiting places, myths, history and people through 365 photographs from a pantheon of renowned photographers. The beauty of Greece, alpha ORDER FRom to omega, heart and soul; the Alexander Press mainland, the islands, and $ 00 70 always, the sea. All the visual PUBLISHED BY Publications MILITOS beauty of its people, its natural Koropi, Attica, Greece, 2005 ORDER FRom wealth, and its magic. Dual Greek-English text Alexander Press Hard bound, 752 pages $ 00 ISBN: 978-960-89121-6-8 70 ΑΙΓΑΙΟ 365 AEGEAN SERVIS & KATERINA MANIA SOTIROPOULOS A photographic homage to the Aegean archipelago of colours, flavours, cultures and history. A treasury of images: The Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, Euboea, the Northern Sporades, the Saronic islands of the Eastern Aegean, the deserted PUBLISHED BY Publications MILITOS islands and islets, “this world so Koropi, Attica, Greece, 2005 ORDER FRom small, this world so great”, whose Dual Greek-English text Alexander Press Hard bound, 752 pages origins are lost in myth. $ 00 ISBN: 978-960-8460-69-0 70 ΚΡΗΤΗ 365 CRETE IOLE VIGGOPOULOS Crete’s Minoan civilization conquered the Greek imagination centuries before Homer. Crete of the fearless warriors and Crete of unique landscapes. An album that reveals the soul of its places and captures its beauty, at once both serene and otherworldly. PUBLISHED BY Publications MILITOS Of the 365 photos, 120 are aerial Koropi, Attica, Greece, 2007 ORDER FRom views showing the island as never Dual Greek-English text Alexander Press Hard bound, 752 pages before . $ 00 ISBN: 978-960-464-010-2 70 4 outstanding illustr ated surveys of our orthodox heritage Ματιεσ στον ΑΘω | Images of Athos Edited by The Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopaedi and Theophanis Douskos Introductory texts by Chriton Chrysochoidis and Georgios Mantzarides on the world also rejected man’s evolution in time. Without delay they accepted and adopted all such innovations [that] contributed to the spiritual advancement of mankind. Thus Mount Athos, where so many manuscripts were produced, lost no time in acquiring and preserving the products of the printing press from the first moment that Gutenberg’s art broke upon the world. In the same way the creations of the photographic art were not forbidden. Both in the past and today there are monks who have become successful photographers. They have produced remarkable work which has strengthened the faith and piety even of people who have never made the pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain. One of these monks photographers is the Charion of Lavra. For many years he has walked up and down the length of Mount Athos on its dirt roads and footpaths. It was not easy, but he captured ascetic faces wrinkled by the weight of their years, and tried to immortalise their evocative gaze, fixed on approaching eternity. He did this not to intrude upon their devotion and prayer, but to make it possible for them to continue he Garden of the Virgin, with its preaching their message to the world even after their unspoilt natural environment and the unceasing pulse has ceased to beat and their body had rotten away. Tspiritual struggle of its monks-anchorites, has On Mount Athos there is also a natural world, through the ages inspired writers and artists, laymen which is just as much a teacher. Insects, birds, animals, and clerics. They expressed themselves in words plants and flowers form, together with the ascetics, the and music, with the brush and the chisel. They buildings and the holy relics, the Garden of the Virgin. immortalized images, persons, sounds and landscapes, The Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopaedi not of course to please the eye and ear, but above all to believes that in publishing . part of this wealth of inspire the soul to kneel before the throne of its Creator. remarkable photographs, it will spur on both ascetics It is not true than those who turned their back and laymen to kneel and cry out: Lord, in thy wisdom hast thou made all things! Published by The Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopaedi, —Thomas I. Papadopoulos Mounr Athos, 1997 Order from Greek and English Alexander Press Hard cover, approximately 450 pages 12.25 in. x 9.375 in. $18000 ISBN: 960-7735-04-8 5 outstanding illustr ated surveys of our orthodox heritage THE CRETAN PAINTER THEOPHANISTHE FINAL PHASE OF HIS ART IN THE WALL-PAINTINGS OF THE HOLY MONASTERY OF STAVRONIKITA by Manolis Chatzidakis Theological commentary by Archimandrite Vasileios Stavronikitianos This fully illustrated volume Abbot of the Monastery, Manolis covers the final phase of the work of the Chatzidakis presents a detailed study, iconographer, Theophanes the Cretan followed by 223 colour-plates reproducing (Theophanes Strelitzas) as expressed on all the mural decoration executed by the frescoes of Stavronikita Monastery on Theophanis. Architectural plans of the areas Mt. Athos. In addition to the Theological painted and the iconographic program are Introduction by Archimandrite Vasilios, included. Published by The Holy Monastery of Stavronikita, Mount Athos, 1986. Order from English Alexander Press Hard cover, 325 pages 12.25 in. x 9.875 in., in slipcover $130 00 ISBN: 960-85542-1-7 6 outstanding illustr ated surveys of our orthodox heritage A well illustrated history and description of the icons of was restored. Serbian rulers supported the monastery in the Holy Agiou Pavlou monastery. Agiou Pavlou lies in the 1400s and after 1453 by rulers of Eastern Europe. St the southwestern part of the Athos peninsula, and ranks Paul’s was partially destroyed many times by attacks on fourteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries. the Holy Mountain. Some of the buildings, including the Its Katholikon is dedicated to the Presentation of Christ main Katholikon, have been rebuilt, and all the buildings in the Temple. date from different periods of history. The monastery’s The monastery, founded in the tenth century by St most prized treasures are the portable icon of Virgin the Pavlos Xeropotaminos, is first mentioned in 972, then Myrovlitissa (myrrh flowing), fragment of the True Cross again in 1269. In the late 14th century its monastic status and part of the gifts brought to baby Jesus by the Magi. Published by Ίερά Μονή Αγίου Παύλου, Mount Athos, 1998. Order from Greek Alexander Press Hard cover, 262 pages 12.875 in. x 9.675 in., in slipcover $130 00 ISBN: 960-85542-1-7 7 outstanding illustr ated surveys of our orthodox heritage This is a comprehensive and richly illustrated Christ Pantocrator, which is today in the Hermitage examination of the many icons of Holy Monastery of Museum in St Petersburg. Pantocrator, by the period of their creation and their Its katholikon, dedicated to the significance. Transfiguration of the Saviour, which was built The Holy Monastery of Pantocrator, ranking with the rest of the Monastery, clearly followed its seventh in the hierarchy of Athonite monasteries, own independent course, both in its architecture stands on the north-eastern side of the Athos and in its wall-paintings, dating back to the late peninsula, by the sea. It was founded in 1363 by 14th century. The sanctuary screen may be the brothers, the military commander Alexios and the oldest in Mount Athos.