#hesychasm

• Athonite — Pertaining to Mount Athos, referring to the monastic community, traditions, manuscripts, or ascetic rules of life specific to the Holy Mountain; as a noun, it denotes a monk or hermit living in one of the monasteries or sketes of this Greek peninsula. The term evokes Hesychast spirituality and Eastern Orthodox asceticism.
• Athos — A mountain and peninsula in northern Greece (Chalcidice, Macedonia region), forming a self-governing monastic state under the spiritual sovereignty of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Universally known as the Holy Mountain (Agion Oros), it houses twenty large fortified monasteries (including Romanian sketes) and stands as the supreme spiritual center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.