Panagia Chrysorrogiatissa Monastery, Cyprus 2014

By the way, the name of the monastery means in the translation, the monastery is dedicated to “Our Lady of the Golden Pomegranate“. As usual with photographers, you try to reach the destination before sunrise to use the best light of the day. So I arrived at the large entrance gate at about 6:00 a.m. In the monastery courtyard I heard the chant of the pre-prayers from the church, the Holy Mass had already begun. So I looked around in the monastery courtyard and took some photos of the buildings. Then I noticed a monk coming up to me from the church. After a short presentation on my part as a photographer, the monk invited me for a coffee after the Mass and went back to the church. What I did not know, the monk was Father Dionysus, the abbot of the monastery and at the same time the only monk who has lived in this monastery for 45 years. Father Dionysus later told me at a Cyprus Coffee that the good condition of the whole monastery is due to the support with the “AG Leventi