- Xeropotamou monastery (Greek: Μονή Ξηροποτάμου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece...
- The Arsanas complex of the Xeropotamou Monastery is located in close proximity to the port of Daphne.
- Xeropotamou monastery is in the middle of the athonite peninsula, on the way from Daphne to Karyes and is dedicated to the 40 Martyrs.
- After the fall of Byzantium, the Turkish raids, and two destructive fires in 1507 and 1609 the monastery was slowly decaying.
- It is possible that he was founder of the small Athonite monastery of St. Paul, which also bore the name tou Xeropotamou in the 10th and 11th centuries.
- After the fall of Byzantium, the Turkish raids, and two destructive fires in 1507 and 1609, cause serious damages to the monastery.
- General information about the Xeropotamou monastery: hierarchical position, dedication, celebrations and main relics of the monastery .
- The monastery was founded in the 10th century by Empress Pulcheria, Constantine VII the Porphyrogenitus and Romanos the Lekapenos.
- Xeropotamou Monastery preserves the largest piece of the True Cross in the world, measuring 31 centimeters in length and featuring a visible hole from the nail.
- Xeropotamou occupies a prominent ridge in the middle of the peninsula above the road from Daphne to Karyes. This beautiful and imposing monastery...
- In the Catholicon (Main Church) of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, thirteen pieces of the True Cross of Jesus Christ are treasured.
- Xeropotamou monastery the monastery Xeropotamou The Xeropotamou monastery is dedicated to the memory of the Forty Martyrs and is eighth in the...
- The monastery of Xeropotamou is located on the south-west side of the Athos peninsula and is dedicated to the Forty Martyrs.
