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Mihailo Tolotos

1856 – 1938

About

Said to have been born some time in 1856, Mihailo Tolotos did not see his mother as she died shortly after she gave birth to him. Not sure about his parental lineage, some men carried him and gave him to the Orthodox Monks at a monastery atop the Mount Athos. There he was raised and tutored, and he spent his life in the service of the monastery. A law called Άβατον (avaton) in Greek, instated in the year of 1046 by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Monomachos, prohibits the entry of women atop the mountain. This law was placed so that the men living in the many monasteries could spend their lives in absolute celibacy with peace. The monks are of the opinion that the presence of women alters their path towards celibacy, and ultimately, spiritual enlightenment. Mihailo Tolotos lived to grow in the monastery and is said to have never ventured out of the walls the Monastery. Having very limited contact with the outside world, Tolotos (among many others) never met women as they were not allowed inside monasteries or on the mountain. Tourists were allowed, but only men, who came to experience the monastic life or to settle there as monks. Tolotos passed at the age of 82 In 1938 having never seen a Automobile, Movie, Airplane. The monks at the monastery gave him a special burial ceremony because he was the only man in the world to never see a women.