Mount Athos is once again in the whirlwind of the coronavirus pandemic, since in less than a month, according to information, three people have died, while the 90-year-old Abbot of the Parthenios monastery, a well-known and ardent coronavirus denier and vaccinator, is also ill.
In his sermons, the Abbot of the Parthenios Monastery says that no one has a blessing from him to make a vaccine and the coronavirus belongs to Freemasonry and Satan.
According to makthes.gr, from the end of November until today, three people have died in the Monastery of Agios Pavlos. They are two monks over 70 years old, Eusebius and Chrysostom, while the victim of the coronavirus was a layman, a worker in the monastery, named Alexander. Now the Abbot, who is over 90 years old, is also ill. His condition is not serious and he remains in the monastery.
For the Monastery of Agios Pavlos, the problem is located in the important cells it has. It is characteristic that in March 2021, in cells of the New Hermitage that belongs to the Monastery of Agios Pavlos, there were 23 positive cases!
The Monastery of Agios Pavlos is essentially the one that put Mount Athos on the map of the pandemic in September 2020. At that time, 8 cases of coronavirus were detected in the monastery, for the first time in the Athonite State.
The result was that the monastery was quarantined and restrictive measures for visits to Mount Athos were implemented for the first time. Due to the situation in the monastery, an EODY team then entered Mount Athos for the first time, examined monks and identified cases in at least two more monasteries.
Source: protothema.gr