His own application for smartphone acquired ...'Agios Oros! The user can "download" the application for free and have on his mobile phone information about the old (applicable in the State of Athonia) and the new calendar, with a simultaneous presentation of their holidays, the fasts that apply every day, the lives of all the saints, the detailed telephone directory of contact with Mount Athos, the saints' festivals of all the holy scenes and the psychologically beneficial gnomics from the wisdom of the Fathers.
Indeed, if one wants it, he can receive a daily alert on his cell phone, at the time he will set, for the celebration and the fast of the day.
The application was created by the company ASTAE, based in Thessaloniki, wanting to facilitate the 300.000 visitors that Mount Athos receives every year, but also the faithful in general. The data kindly granted by the fathers of the Holy Monastery of Pantokrator of Mount Athos, on the condition that they be made available free of charge.
AST's CEO Giannis Theodorakis told ANA-MPA that the idea for the application arose when he and the executives of the company, who frequently visit the Athonite State, found that the place lacks information for the visitor, for example he does not know where to go to rent a car, or the phone of the Monastery who wants to visit.
The company's thinking is to provide application information in Slavic languages for foreign visitors to Mount Athos.
The app is available on the App Store for iPhone and Google Play for device Android.
Source: Huffingtonpost