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Xeropotamou Monastery

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running near the monastery, which is a stony brook that dries up in the dry season. The brook is crossed by
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The library contains 409 manuscripts, and about 600 printed books. Today the monastery has about 25 monks.
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The name Xeropotamou, literally "of the dry river", refers to the
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Greek Ministry of Culture: Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou
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Xeropotamou monastery

Xeropotamou Monastery is located in Mount Athos
Order
Ecumenical Patriarchate
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Diocese
Mount Athos
Alexius Comnenus
Mount Athos
Greece
Coordinates
40°13′40.54″N 24°13′11.33″E / 40.2279278°N 24.2198139°E / 40.2279278; 24.2198139
Greek
Eastern Orthodox
monastery
Mount Athos
Greece
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

relics
True Cross
Elevation of the Holy Cross

ephemeral stream
Xeropotamou Bridge
bg
Greek
St. Panteleimon Monastery
ISBN

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