The Origins of Monastic Life in Russia

After the decline of Byzantium and its fall, monasticism flourished all the more in Russia. A monastery to begin and then a city would spring up around it. The first hermit in Alaska was Saint Herman of Alaska who showed forth as the kind of first fruit of this wonderful monastic tradition on our own soil. So Manathos today continues to thrive both in old countries and the new world, particularly in America.