Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Monk of Mount Athos who brought out the Philokalia with Macarius of Corinth in 1782 and spent his life preparing spiritual books for the press.
The publisher of the Athens edition of the Philokalia in 1893, addressing the monks of Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain from which Nicodemus is called “the Hagiorite”, wrote that Nicodemus came from among them, that he spent his life on the publication of sacred books, and that he contributed much to the Philokalia when he published it with Macarius of Corinth (Philokalia (1782), publisher’s dedication of the Athens reprint, 1893). The catalogue record of the first edition names him as its author together with Macarius and gives his dates as 1749–1809 (Philokalia (1782), Onassis Library copy, catalogue record). The letter of Paisius Velichkovsky that describes the making of the collection speaks only of Macarius (Life and Writings of Paisius Velichkovsky (1847), letter to Archimandrite Theodosius, para. beginning ‘Святыня же ваша’). See the Philokalia Is Published.
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- 1782, firm dateThe Philokalia Is Published
A Greek anthology of writers on watchfulness and the prayer of the heart, gathered from the libraries of Mount Athos, is printed at Venice in 1782. Its preface offers the prayer to laypeople as well as monks. A Slavonic version follows at Moscow in 1793.