200px, The ''Evergetinos'' cover in Greek language
''The Evergetinos'' ( grc, εὐεργετινός "Of the Benefactress", from ''
evergetis'' "Benefactress") is a vast collection of materials from a number of other collections of sayings of
monastics and others, ranging from the well-known works of
St. John Cassian and
Palladius, to the anonymously produced
Apophthegmata ''Apophthegmata'', the plural of ''apophthegm'' (also spelled ''apothegm''), a pithy maxim, is the abbreviated title of several collections of aphorisms, adages, maxims, or proverbs, specifically:
* Apophthegmata of Delphi
* ''Apophthegmata Lacon ...
collections, but including materials also from hagiographies, menologia, and other, unspecified and now-lost sources. The collection was compiled in the eleventh century by
Hieromonk
A hieromonk ( el, Ἱερομόναχος, Ieromonachos; ka, მღვდელმონაზონი, tr; Slavonic: ''Ieromonakh'', ro, Ieromonah), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church an ...
Paul Evergetinos (i.e., Paul of the monastery of the Benefactress). In the eighteenth century,
Macarios of Corinth and
Nicodemos the Hagiorite
Nicodemus the Hagiorite or Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain ( el, Ὅσιος Νικόδημος ὁ Ἁγιορείτης; 1749 – July 14, 1809) is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was an ascetic monk, mystic, theologian, and philos ...
were responsible for putting together a manuscript for publication based upon a number of manuscripts scattered among the libraries of the
Holy Mountain. The first printed edition was produced in 1783 and the work has seen many subsequent editions.
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18th-century books
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Ottoman Greece
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