The Life of Paisij Velyčkovs'kyj

by Anthony-Emil Tachiaos

Born in Poltava in 1722, Paisij Velyčkovs'kyj attended the Kievan Mohyla Academy. After four years, he renounced secular studies to become a monk. He lived in various monasteries in the Ukraine (including the Kievan Caves Monastery), on Mt. Athos, and in Moldavia and Wallachia, where he died in 1794. In or about 1748 a Moldavo-Slavic brotherhood began to gather about Velyčkovs'kyj and to revive the Hesychast traditions of the "cult of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916458369
• ISBN13: 9780916458362
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"