13.61 Rule of the Skete of the Annunciation
20 October 1839
Xenophontos Monastery, Archives
Paper, 74.6 x 56 cm
The text is set out in two columns. In the upper margin above the left-hand column is the imprint of the seal of the Skete of the Annunciation, and above the right-hand column that of the Xenophontos Monastery.
In order to preserve peace, harmony and good order among the initiates, the Fathers of the Skete of the Annunciation, which belongs to the Xenophontos Monastery, have drawn up a Rule of twenty articles. These regulations deal with the organisation of daily life, economic relations between the brothers, payment of taxes, relations between monks and novices, the duties of the dikaios, the procedure for the resolution of disputes, the duties of the vicar and of the typikaris of the kyriakon.
The twenty articles shall have force of law in the administration of the skete. The document is ratified by Hegumen Nikephoros of the Xenophontos Monastery and signed by the monks of the skete.