Karmilio Oros

{{Short description|Mountain in Mount Athos, Greece}}

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Καρμήλιο Όρος

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Karmilio Oros ({{langx|el|Καρμήλιο Όρος}} or {{lang|el|Καρμύλιο Όρος}}; also known as Prophet Elijah or Profitis Ilias (Προφήτης Ηλίας) on some maps) is a peak at the southern end of the Athos peninsula. Its summit is 887 metres above sea level.{{cite book|last=Howorth|first=Peter|title=Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain|date=2022|publisher=Filathonites|isbn=978-0-473-41386-6}}{{cite web | title=Node: ‪Προφήτης Ηλίας‬ (6608836612) | website=OpenStreetMap | date=2022-01-10 | url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6608836612 | access-date=2022-11-21}} It is named after Mount Carmel.

File:Karmilio Oros sign.jpg and Stavros pointing the way to Karmilio Oros]]

File:Prophet Elijah Chapel on Karmilio Oros.jpg

The peak can be reached via footpaths from the Hermitage of Saint Basil. The peak lies directly to the northeast of the Skete of St. Basil.{{cite book|title=Mount Athos: Pilgrimage to "The Garden of Virgin Mary"|last=Lilios|first=Loukas K.|translator-first=Vlachoutsakou|date=2017|translator-last=Konstantina|publisher=Lilios Publishers|publication-place=Livadia|isbn=978-618-81848-6-2}}{{rp|68}} The Holy Chapel of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elijah (Ιερόν Παρεκκλήσιον Αγίου ενδόξου Προφήτου Ηλιού; {{coord|40.187602|24.292176|display=inline}}) and some radio towers sit on top of the peak. A footpath connects the skete to the peak, as well as with the Stavros junction, where there are footpaths that lead to the Skete of St. Anne, Kerasia, and Great Lavra.Thomas, Chris and Howorth, Peter (2022). Encounters on the Holy Mountain. {{ISBN|978-2-503-58911-4}}.

Its summit is also known as the "peak of the Prophet Elijah."Dawkins, Richard McGillivray (1936). The Monks of Athos. London: G. Allen & Unwin, p. 259. One of its historical residents included Saint Gerasimus of Kefalonia (1506–79), who for 17 years lived "a heroic existence, battling constantly against nature’s elements – wind, thunder and lightning, rain, snow, frost – and against the full guile of demons" on Karmilion.{{rp|355}} Another historical resident included "the Confessor Father Neophytos who lived on Karmelion (a peak west of Kerasia and above the desert of St. Basil)."{{cite book|last=Kotsonis|first=Priestmonk Ioannikios|title=An Athonite Gerontikon: Sayings and Stories of the Holy Fathers of Mount Athos|publisher=Holy Monastery of St. Gregory Palamas|date=2003|edition=2nd|location=Koufalia, Thessaloniki}}{{rp|56}}{{cite book|last=Della Dora|first=Veronica|title=Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium|publication-place=Cambridge|date=2016|isbn=978-1-316-48838-6|oclc=938434170}}{{rp|166}}