Fasting and different levels of food breakdown permeate the entire calendar year and are directly related to the Orthodox Vegetarianism. Exceptions to the fasting and fasting periods are numerous and inextricably linked to the calendar and each monastery. Many holy relics are kept on Mount Athos. On the homonymous day of the feast of the Saint, there is a feast and a praise service, while the oil and wine are also catalyzed.

The feast-feast is not just a liturgical event. It is connected to everyday life and influences eating habits, since there is a unity between faith and life. Initially, of course, customary and later through rules that also regulate dietary issues. The bell ringing, the joyful chanting, the incense, the offering of tables, but above all the uplifting of the soul by the divine gifts are some of the characteristics of an Athonite feast.

As far as the Τhe Holy Monastery of Pantokrator is concerned, it celebrates also on August 6 during the feast of the Transfiguration of the Saviour and during the feast of the Ephesian icon of the Virgin Mary “Gerontissa” on December 2 and during the feast of the All-Holy Fathers on October 15.
The Τhe Holy Monastery of Pantokrator, in accordance with the Typikon of our Orthodox Patristic Tradition, also celebrates on the feasts of Saints Custodians, Saints of the Monastery’s Hagiologion, Saints whose relics the Monastery has and, on the commemoration of Miracles.

The jar depicted on the silver lining of the icon commemorates the miracle with the oil, when the Virgin Mary the Elder gave it to the monks during a period of great poverty. The jar from which the oil gushed is preserved as a shrine to this day.
The miraculous intervention of the Virgin Mary of the “Eliovretissa” of the Elder, is also happened on other occasions. When in 1945 someone had loaded oil to cover weapons underneath, which he was carrying for the war, he lost his bearings. The sea guided him and took him to the port of Τhe Holy Monastery of Pantokrator. At that time the monastery had no oil at all. In fact, on the eve it is reported that the steward reported to the abbot that there was no oil to give “the kubania” the kubania to the fathers. They were given a bottle of oil to keep everyone going for the whole month. The monks, in obedience to the abbot, prepared in the container all that was needed to give the oil , although they did not have any. They obeyed the word of their abbot. The next morning they saw a captain coming from a ship below. Approaching the port he asked the fathers if they wanted oil and explained to them that they had, inexplicably, gone out of their course and approached the port -near the monastery. It was God’s will and the miracle of the Virgin Mary “Elaiovytissa”. For the umpteenth time!