Saint Paisios: From Farasa to Heaven

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  1. Episode 1

  45m

  The birth of Saint Paisios coincides with the uprooting of the Greeks from Cappadocia. His family, along with all the inhabitants of the Greek villages, takes the road of refuge to Greece. Their spiritual guide is the old man Arsenios.

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  2. Episode 2

  45m

  The uprooted from Cappadocia arrive in Piraeus, expecting to find mother Greece who will embrace them, but they encounter many difficulties and problems.

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  3. Episode 3

  45m

  40 days after the settlement in the castle of Corfu, the old man Arsenios sleeps in the hospital of the city. His passing turns everything in the community upside down. Tensions, quarrels and disputes begin.

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  4. Episode 4

  45m

  Prodromos faces great difficulties in keeping the villagers together. His family, along with 50 other families, finally arrive at the place where they will put down roots. In the land of Konitsa.

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  5. Episode 5

  45m

  Little Arsenios chants his first prayers, grows up and, as a refugee child, encounters his first difficulties with his peers.

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  6. Episode 6

  45m

  Arsenios at the age of 12 chooses not to go to high school but to learn the carpenter's art in order to help his parents. At the age of 16, a cousin sows doubt in his soul about the divinity of Christ.

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  7. Episode 7

  45m

  Arsenios is called to join the army. He turns to the Virgin Mary and begs her to help him not to kill a man.

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  8. Episode 8

  45m

  Evlogia has a big surprise. Arsenios returns home and tells her that he has been discharged from the army. Her joy will not last long, because he announces her that he is leaving for Mount Athos.

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  9. Episode 9

  45m

  Arsenios having fulfilled all his obligations to his family, he leaves for Mount Athos for a permanent stay. Under the guidance of Abbot Kallinikos the young novice becomes a petty monk and takes the name Paisios.

Cast

Prokopis Agathokleous

Saint Paisios

Dimitris Xanthopoulos

Prodromos Eznepidis

Christina Pavlidou

Evlogia Eznepidi

Drosos Skotis

Prodromos Kortsinoglou

Δέσποινα Γκάτζιου

Kyra-Despoina