The Elder Ieronymos of Aegina: With Memoirs of the Elder Ieronymos

Publication Data: Boston, MA: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 2007
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions (l × w × h): 19.7 cm × 13.3 cm × 2.0 cm
Additional Information: two-color printing, black-and-white illustrations
ISBN 13: 978‒0‒943405‒14‒8
ISBN: 0‒943405‒14‒9

By Peter Botsis
Translated from the Greek by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery

“[This work is...]the biography of the Elder Ieronymos the Cappadocian of Aegina, one of the two great Elders of the Jesus Prayer in the twentieth century in the land of Greece, the other being the Elder Joseph the Hesychast of the Holy Mountain. Both were very strong in the interior prayer of the heart. They were contemporaries and knew each other; from time to time they exchanged notes on their experiences of the Jesus Prayer. [...]The Elder Ieronymos was a very amazing man, like one of the ancients, the great Desert Fathers. Wherever he lived—in his beloved Cappadocia, at the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist by the Jordan, which was his domicile during his prolonged pilgrimage in the Holy Land, in Constantinople where he served as deacon and preacher to his Cappadocian and Anatolian compatriots who were merchants, or in Aegina where he lived the last four decades of his life—he praised the Name of the Lord in the depth of his heart and mind in deep stillness. He perpetually stood in the ‘house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.’”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

   Introduction
Chapter 1 Testimony of Sanctity
Chapter 2 The Great Mainland
Chapter 3 God-Pleasing Upbringing
Chapter 4 Deacon
Chapter 5 At the Holy Places
Chapter 6 Constantinople
Chapter 7 Greece
Chapter 8 Aegina
Chapter 9 A Priest Called by God
Chapter 10 The Angelic Life
Chapter 11 Suffering the Things of Men
Chapter 12 To the Mountain that is Holy
Chapter 13 Experiences of a God-seer
Chapter 14 Spiritual Solicitude
Chapter 15 No Man on Earth Loves Me Like Father Ieronymos
Chapter 16 Example of Humblemindedness
Chapter 17 Lover of Tradition
Chapter 18 In Mine Affliction Thou Hast Enlarged Me
Chapter 19 The Hermitage
Chapter 20 Daily Ministry
Chapter 21 My Strength is Made Perfect in Weakness
Chapter 22 Last Struggles
Chapter 23 Departure
   Epilogue
   Appendix
   Memoirs of the Elder Ieronymos of Aegina
   Miracles of the Elder Ieronymos
   Service to the Elder Ieronymos of Aegina