Word: panteleimon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devotion to such pious relics-cherished by the monasteries as much as their beautifully illuminated manuscripts and rare icons-as the finger of John the Baptist and the girdle of the Virgin Mary. Many of the monasteries are dying for lack of new recruits. The Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon, once 2,000 strong, now has only 40 monks; the youngest of them is in his sixties...