The volume "Mount Athos, the Inextinguishable Flame" aims to preserve something of the elegance, grace, magic, and also the severity of a "heterodoxy" such as monasticism, as the existence of the latter dangerously enlarges the margin within which the world can transform at any moment into a poetic event.

One only needs to pay attention to the names of the authors who sign the texts in this volume: Papadiamantis, Kazantzakis, Theotokas, Ouranis, Kontoglou, Prevelakis, and many other distinguished representatives of letters and arts.

Believers or atheists, admiring or skeptical, bourgeois or marginal, one feels that they find their expressive tools inadequate to articulate a revelation that comes upon them and overturns the facts of their lives, as they have been shaped until the moment they visit Mount Athos.

What else could be characterized as a miracle in the life of every person, if not the initial hesitation and the subsequent willingness to change their deeper self, transforming them into a creation of God?

The volume "Mount Athos, the Inextinguishable Flame," covering a century of writing and publishing of its texts, humbly claims to contribute to the activation of this miracle in extremely difficult and humble times.