![]() Once a band of armed Chekists broke into the monastery, led both Fr. He settled at Armazi Monastery outside of Mtskheta, where the Bolsheviks had left just one monk to labor in solitude. Then, due to the increasingly troubling circumstances there, he left the Holy Mountain with the other Georgian monks sometime between 19. Throughout his life the holy father dedicated himself to serving God and his brothers in Christ in hopes that his own life might be fruitful for them.įr. The monk Ioane was soon ordained to the priesthood. John the Theologian, whom he revered deeply and sought to emulate. He was tonsured a monk and named Ioane in honor of St. ![]() Among the brothers he was distinguished for his simplicity and obedience. John the Theologian at IveronMonastery on Mt. Spiridon (Ketiladze), the main priest at Betania Monastery, to restore the monastery between 18.įrom his youth Basil was eager to enter the monastic life, and in 1903, according to God’s will, he moved to the Skete of St. Basil was barely in his teens when he helped Fr. He was raised in a peasant family and taught to perform all kinds of handiwork. ![]() ![]() Giorgi-Ioane (Mkheidze) and Ioane (Maisuradze)Īrchimandrite Ioane (Basil Maisuradze in the world) was born in the town of Tskhinvali in Samachablo around 1882. ![]()
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