March 23 - April 11, 2025
In recent years a fruitful collaboration has developed between the Holy Metropolis of Grevena and the Mount Athos Center. Every year, during Great Lent, the Mount Athos Center stages an art exhibition in the Metropolis’s Cultural Center. Father Christos Kourtis, who is in charge of the Metropolis’s catechetical schools and youth activities, undertakes the organisation of visits and educational programmes.
His Eminence Metropolitan David of Grevena had sent us a request to stage a similar exhibition again this year, to which we gladly responded by presenting an exhibition of paintings by the Athonite hieromonk Loukas Xenophontinos entitled ‘Between Earth and Heaven’.
As happens every year, the exhibition was officially opened on Veneration of the Cross Sunday (23 March this year) in the Metropolis’s Cultural Center, where it remained open for the public until 11 April 2025.
This year’s exhibition was greatly enhanced and blessed by the presence of the artist himself. Indeed, within the framework of the collaboration between the Holy Metropolis of Grevena and the Directorate of Secondary Education of the Regional Unit of Grevena, Father Loukas met a number of third-grade upper high school pupils and talked to them about ‘Exams… which are only the beginning’, beauty and the value of life, which touched their hearts and souls.
During their visits to the exhibition, after a guided tour, school pupils had the opportunity, with the aid of interactive educational games, to gain an understanding of the beauty and simplicity of life on Mount Athos through a virtual tour of the Athonite Republic.
As happens every year, the exhibition was officially opened on Veneration of the Cross Sunday (23 March this year) in the Metropolis’s Cultural Center, where it remained open for the public until 11 April 2025.
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This year’s exhibition was greatly enhanced and blessed by the presence of the artist himself. Indeed, within the framework of the collaboration between the Holy Metropolis of Grevena and the Directorate of Secondary Education of the Regional Unit of Grevena, Father Loukas met a number of third-grade upper high school pupils and talked to them about ‘Exams… which are only the beginning’, beauty and the value of life, which touched their hearts and souls.
During their visits to the exhibition, after a guided tour, school pupils had the opportunity, with the aid of interactive educational games, to gain an understanding of the beauty and simplicity of life on Mount Athos through a virtual tour of the Athonite Republic.
View the embedded image gallery online at:
https://www.agioritikiestia.gr/en/exhibition-of-watercolours-by-the-hieromonk-loukas-xenophontinos-entitled-between-earth-and-heaven-in-grevena#sigProId3e7621d7c6
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