Emerging in the early centuries of Christianity and reaching full maturity in the Byzantine Empire, Hesychasm is a mystical tradition within Eastern Orthodox spirituality. It offers a method of inner stillness and prayer that, in form—though not in theology—resembles...
Saint Joseph the Hesychast became one of the most influential figures in modern Orthodox monasticism. His life centered on prayer, solitude and spiritual discipline, yet his teachings eventually reached far beyond Greece's Mount Athos monastic community.
Born Frangiskos Kottis in...
