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On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...
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Called to the Holy Mountain
This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...
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Police, monks gear up for another battle on Mount Athos
ISTANBUL (RNS) — Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered ... areas of the Athonian State,” stated the letter sent to the Holy Community of Mount ...