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Paisius Velichkovsky

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Still in a search of [[ascetic]] labor and a life as a [[hermit]], Platon journeyed to the monasteries in Moldovlachia that had been influenced by the spiritual life of the monasteries of [[Mount Athos]]. At the age of twenty-four, Platon traveled to Mount Athos, there to reside in the [[Pantokrator Monastery (Athos)|Pantocrator Monastery]] for the next four years, living in a life of ascetic poverty. In 1750, Platon was tonsured to the mantle with the name of Paisius by his spiritual father, Schema-monk Vasilius, who had come to Mount Athos from Moldavia.
Soon, Vissarion and Cesarius, his first spiritual students, joined Paisius. At the age of thirty-six, Fr. Paisius was [[ordinatiionordination|ordained]] a [[hieromonk]] in 1758. As his community of monks grew, Hiero-schemamonk Paisius asked Pantocrator Monastery to give him the use of the cell of Prophet Elias, which then grew to become the [[Skete of Prophet Elias]]. As his community grew, Elder Paisius became the spiritual father of not only his brotherhood but of many throughout the Holy Mountain. As the community grew beyond fifty members, frictions with others on the mountain as well as over running the capacity of their skete made living conditions difficult. To alleviate the difficulties Elder Paisius, at the recommendation of many of the residents, moved his community to the empty [[Simonopetra Monastery (Athos)|Monastery of Simonopetra]]. But, after three months the community returned to the Skete of [[Elijah|Prophet Elias]], as Simonopetra had been empty, because the earlier community had moved out due to not being able to pay the taxes demanded by the Turkish authorities. The Turks now wanted Elder Paisius and his community to pay these taxes.
After seventeen years on the Holy Mountain, Elder Paisius then decided to move his brethren to Moldovlachia in Moldavia. In 1763, with sixty-four monks, Elder Paisius moved to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Dragomir, Bukovina. Here, they restored the monastery and established a new life under the monastic rule for services they had used at Mount Athos. The community served in two languages: on the right [[kliros]] they sang in Slavonic, and on the left, in Moldavian.
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