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== Beginnings of the monastery ==
Holy Cross Monastery began with its [[abbot]], [[Archimandrite]] Theodor. He always dreamed of founding a monastery one day for the greater glory of God. In 1965, while he was very young and after he had been [[ordination|ordained]] as a [[priest]] for just one year, his devout mother suddenly and unexpectedly fell asleep in the Lord. He was an the only sonof his parents, and his mother left her inheritance to him ; since she knew of his holy intention to build a monastery one day.
This legacy from his mother was the seed from which Holy Cross Monastery would one day take root, but it was not enough to acquire property suitable for a monastery. So he labored in the Lord's vineyard as a parish priest until he met his first [[disciple]] in 1970.
