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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 turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...
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5.3-magnitude quake rocks Greece’s Mount Athos
A 5.3-magnitude undersea earthquake struck near Mount Athos, Greece’s historic Orthodox monastic enclave. No immediate damage ...
Delaware County Daily Times24d
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...
Religion News Service25d
Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
MOUNT ATHOS ... Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is ...
Houston Chronicle27d
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP ... The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula is no ...
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On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece ... of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain.
The Independent27d
On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...