Archimandrite Vasilios Grolimund fell asleep - The acquaintance with Orthodoxy in Mykonos, Saint Justin Popovich and the testimony in the Westtranslated

On Tuesday, November 3, Archimandrite Vasilios Grolimud, abbot of the St. Spyridon's Stavropegic hermitage in Geilnau near Limburg, in the Federal Republic of Germany, fell asleep in the Lord at the age of 83. This Orthodox theologian, classical philologist, Slavist, polyglot and charismatic hagiographer was a tireless minister, a quiet ascetic, who with his life according to the Gospel of Christ revived the Philocalic tradition of the ancient Fathers of the Church and presented the theological richness of the desert ascetics among the seekers of God in Western Europe.

He was a worthy disciple of St. Justin Popovich and was a spiritual father to many seekers of God in Western Europe in the late twentieth and first quarter of the twenty-first century.

Knowing Orthodoxy in…. Mykonos Archimandrite Vasilios Grolimund was born on Easter 1943 in Muri near Zurich, where she was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Hans Petros. He met Orthodoxy on a graduation trip to Greece, on the island of Mykonos, attending the Divine Liturgy for the first time as a student at...