Everyone wants that his house should be in such a place where everything is easy to find and every facility should be there which can make our life easier. We all live in some colonies, but have you ever thought that a person can live alone on a very high rock? You should be very surprised at this, but yes, that is true. Today, the house we are talking about is not on the ground, but 130 feet high on the top of a rock. And the name of this rock is Katskhi pillar. It is a natural limestone monolith located at the village of Katskhi in western Georgian region of Imereti and is about 40 meters high.
Georgia's Katsakhi Pillar is 130 feet high and it was desolate for centuries. There are visible church ruins on the top of its surface. It has been venerated by locals as the Pillar of Life and a symbol of the True Cross. After long deep studies on it, it has been concluded that the ruins were of an early medieval hermitage dating from the 9th or 10th century. The idea of living alone on the top of this rock was very scary. But a 63-year-old man has been living here for the past 25 years. He believes that while living on this dreaded mountain peak he has reached closer to God.
Georgia's Katsakhi Pillar is 130 feet high and it was desolate for centuries. There are visible church ruins on the top of its surface. It has been venerated by locals as the Pillar of Life and a symbol of the True Cross. After long deep studies on it, it has been concluded that the ruins were of an early medieval hermitage dating from the 9th or 10th century. The idea of living alone on the top of this rock was very scary. But a 63-year-old man has been living here for the past 25 years. He believes that while living on this dreaded mountain peak he has reached closer to God.
The name of this man is Maxim Qavtaradze and he is a Christian monk. Maxim is staying at 130 feet high 'Katskhi pillar' since 1993. He lives alone there and comes down only twice a week. Because it is not easy to come down and climb again from this height. There are 131 stairs to go upstairs, which take 20 minutes to go, and climbing its height is not the case for everyone. The goods he needed are delivered through a Chakariginni by his followers. A small cottage is located on top of the pillar where a prayer room is built in it. Some priests and some troubled young people sometimes come here and pray.
Before becoming a monk, Maxim used to work as a crane operator. He explains that he was addicted to alcohol and drugs in his young age. But after that he decided to change his life and become a monk.
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