Sfântul Cuvios Paisie de la Neamț și Mitropolitul Veniamin Costachi
Pious Saint Paisie of Neamț and Metropolitan Veniamin Costachi

Summary/Abstract: Metropolitan Veniamin Costachi, from a very young age, wanted to become a member of the hesychastic community from Neamț, led by Pious Saint Paisie Velicikovski. Later, after apprenticing under Metropolitan Iacov Stamati (himself a monk from Neamț, from the community that had preceded the coming of the Paisian monks to the Monastery), he became a member of the Paisian community from Neamț, where he met Pious Saint Paisie, took “many spiritual teachings from His Holiness”, became “obedient to the staretz” and extended the model of life from the Neamț community to the diocese he led, and then to the entire Metropolitanate. The attitudes and deeds of the entire life and activity of the Romanian Metropolitan, disciple of Metropolitan Iacov and member of the Paisian community from Neamț, will shape his image in posterity as a “man of hesychast prayer and European founder”.

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