Simonos Petra, a monastery on Mount Athos, embraces monks from diverse backgrounds, transcending national boundaries within the Orthodox Christian faith. This ecumenical spirit, rooted in the ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos ... arriving there from an affiliated monastery in France as part of a spiritual quest. On what brought him to Mount Athos: “It was in essence a deep ...

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 ...

Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, stands on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Sunday, April 13 ...

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 enclose ...

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 ...

Others, such as myself, a matter of minutes — fortuitously passing Meteora’s most celebrated ... erupting from the featureless plains of Thessaly in northwest Greece, in terms of tectonic ...

General Plastiras memory came alive in my recent trips to Greece, which included Grand Meteora Monastery and the War Museum of Tripolis ... Nikolaos Plastiras was born in Karditsa, Thessaly in 1883, a ...

During my recent trips to Greece, I was reminded of Plastiras’ legacy at the Grand Meteora Monastery and the War Museum of Tripoli ... Atatürk reportedly told Plastiras: Plastiras dam. Thessaly. “I ...