{"id":496027,"date":"2024-09-17T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=496027"},"modified":"2024-09-17T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:35:11","slug":"from-fame-to-monastic-life-greek-tiktoker-quits-social-media-and-becomes-a-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/from-fame-to-monastic-life-greek-tiktoker-quits-social-media-and-becomes-a-nun\/","title":{"rendered":"From fame to monastic life: Greek TikToker quits social media and becomes a nun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With nearly 480,000 followers on TikTok, Eleni Mazlou has decided to dedicate her life to Christ and embrace monastic life. The 23-year-old influencer made the announcement by sharing photos from her monastic tonsure on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before publicly revealing her new mission, the former content creator removed all posts from her personal channels that did not reference monastic life and Orthodox faith. After the tonsure, Eleni Mazlou received the monastic name Ypomoni, which means &#8220;Patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video, she explained that after a deep spiritual search, she decided to step away from fame and focus on her faith. Her previous content included scenes from daily life, beauty tips, and aspects of young people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p>In the description of her TikTok channel, she expresses her love for God and Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_jA-HItpky\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">Vezi aceast\u0103 postare pe Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; 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The 23-year-old influencer made the announcement by sharing photos from her monastic tonsure on social media. Before publicly revealing her new mission, the former content creator removed all posts from her personal channels that did&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22924],"tags":[33261,19859,18677,33260],"class_list":["post-496027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth","tag-influencer-2","tag-monastic-life","tag-social-media-en","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}