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The album. The icons in high resolution. Pantokrator - one of the Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos. Seventh in the diptychs of the Athos monasteries. The monastery was founded by two Greek aristocrats, here ended his days in the monastery: stratopedarh Alex and his brother John, san primikiry. However, there is a legend that the monastery was founded by the Emperor Alexius Comnenus. For the first time mentioned the monastery in 1358. In 1362 the monastery was rebuilt with the participation of the Patriarch of Constantinople Callistus I. Then there lived patriarch Callistus II Ksanfopul and archbishops of Thessalonica Theon and Simeon. Relics: relics of the Great Theodore Stratelates, the power of disinterested Cosmas and Damian, a part of the Holy Cross, part of the board of the Great Mercury, the icons of XIV century (iconostasis of the cathedral, probably the most ancient Mount Athos), an icon of the Virgin Gerontissa (patroness of the monastery) - one of the most revered works wonders Athos icons.