“All these early printed books that we discovered on Mount Athos constitute a unique literary, spiritual, and cultural heritage that has survived in a foreign land, far from Ukrainian soil. In the 16th–18th centuries, the Kyiv Church and Kyivan Christianity exerted a powerful spiritual and cultural influence on other peoples and other Local Churches, including at such an ancient global center of Eastern Christian monasticism as the Holy Mountain of Athos.
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