Photos from the upcoming film about St. Paisius Velichkovsky published on the Internet (PHOTO)

Photos from the set of a new film about St. Paisius Velichkovsky appeared in the world-wide net. The documentary and educational film about St. Paisius Velichkovsky and the Holy Mount Athos, which is being shot by Ukrainian researchers, will be released in late autumn, reports UNIAN.

During a recent trip to the Holy Mount the research expedition from Ukraine visited the monastery of Xenophon, wrote on his FB page on his page Dmitry Vorona, a founder of "Orthodox heritage of Ukraine on Mount Athos" charity fund.

"This monastery, as well as other Athos holy places, keeps under its arches, the greatest shrines of the Great Byzantium, including a miraculous icon of St. George the Victorious. The legend says that during the second iconoclastic period, fulfilling the orders of the Emperor, the soldiers threw the icon into the fire, but it remained intact. That same night, the Christians got the icon and threw it into the sea, hoping that it would find shelter on the other shore, where believers could pray before it. A century later, the icon got to the shore of the Athos peninsula, where the monastery Xenophon was situated. On the spot where the icon arrived, a spring shot out from the ground, and today thousands of believers receive healing from it," he explained.

"Now, as for the past 40 years, the monastery is under the spiritual guidance of Gerontius Alexis, who shows the brethren a living example of monastic obedience singing in the choir, working in the monastery's shop and garden," said Dmitry Vorona.

According to the founder of the fund, while communicating with the elder, the film crew received the blessing of the old man and his wise guidance for further work.

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