ABOUT THE BOOK "SPIRITUAL EXERCISES" BY PROF. NIKODIM SVYATOGORETS
The article outlines the hypotheses for writing and compiling the "Spiritual Exercises" of St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite. Regarding the dependence of the book of St. Nicodemus from the original Italian sources, the researchers were divided into two groups. One group, dominated by clerics and monks, denies any significant dependence. The second group of researchers, after carefully studying the Italian original texts of the Jesuit Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti and comparing them with the “Spiritual Exercises”, came to the conclusion that the Hagiorite used Greek translations of his books. Translations of Italian books made by Emmanuel Romanites on Mount Athos to St. Nicodemus was brought by his friend Saint Macarius of Corinth.