The compiler of this book is one of the respected Athonite elders, who out of humility wished to remain anonymous. For more than 30 years, he collected and systematized stories and sayings reflecting the ascetic and hesychast Tradition of Holy Mount Athos. His eight-hundred-page book, published on Mount Athos in 2011, has gone through several reprints. For the convenience of readers and with the blessing of the elder, the Russian translation is published in three volumes - “Biographies”, “Tales of Asceticism” and “Stories of Elder Paisius and other Holy Mountainers”, which are united under the general title “The New Athonite Patericon”. The second volume of the patericon contains short stories about Athonite monks of the 20th century and their vivid statements. This volume is very reminiscent in its spirit of the classic work of ancient monastic literature - “Memorable Tales of the Ascetic Asceticism of the Holy and Blessed Fathers” - and is organized according to the same principle: the stories are in alphabetical order of the names of the elders, and the stories about the nameless fathers are collected at the end of the book.< /p>