Монашеското образование на патриарх Евтимий в манастира Кефаларево

The patriarch Evtimiy of Tărnovo started his spiritual path in the monastery of Kefalarevo, which was founded by Theodosius of Tărnovo, a disciple of Gregory of Sinai. In this monastery, Evtimiy was educated according to the priciples of Gregory of Sinai's new spiritual school, and soon became a teacher for the younger monks. Studying some ascetic-monastic south-slavonic miscellanies related to the Kefalarevo's monastery and to Gregory's monastery (Paroria), we were able to understand the spiritual scene and Evtimiy's monastic education and, in general, the life in these monasteries. The miscellanies, that have been analyzed, include writings of contemporary writers: Pseudo-Symeon the New Theologian, author of the Three Methods of Prayer, Nikephoros of Mount Athos (XIII century) and Gregory of Sinai's himself. In their writings these three authors explicitely refer to a number of previous writers and texts, that reflect, in a certain sense, the entire history of the Byzantine spirituality. In the miscellanies are also found works of the various authors, starting from Ephrem the Syrian, Evagrius of Pontus and Pseudo-Macarius of Egypt (IV century), to Isaiah of Gaza and Mark the Monk (V century). We meet also excerpts from various “Paterika” (especially those from the Svodni Patericon, that was presumably written in the XIV century) and passages by Zosimas (VI century). Are found as well authors from the VII century such as Athanasius of Sinai, Thalassius of Caesarea and Maximos the Confessor. Theodore of Edessa's writings (IX century) can be seen as a sort of synthesis of the previous ones. Philotheos of Sinai (X century), Symeon the New Theologian and Nikitas Stithatos (XI century) represent the second stage of the Byzantine mysticism. Finally, Hesychius of Sinai (XII century) anticipates the spititual renaissance of the XIII and XIV centuries.