During the 14th century, the great monk Athanasios Koinovitis brought a group of devout followers from Mount Athos to Meteora, in search of a group of ascetic hermits that had developed a ...

Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox monastic republic ... of charismatic leaders (some of them fleeing from places, like Meteora, that had become too touristy for monastic practice), and in part ...

Meteora is a rock formation located in Greece ... Ossuaries were common in monasteries built on mountains. In the Mount Athos monasteries, it was common for monks to reuse their graves because ...

There’s a palpable aura and mysticism to Meteora, one that has made it a ... monk Athanasios and his followers, who departed Mount Athos — Greece’s other great monastic hub — in search ...

The Stukas swooped across the Aegean skies like dark, dreadful birds, but they dropped no bombs on the monks of Mount Athos. The motorized Nazi hordes rumbled across the Salonikan peninsula ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years.

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Father Serafeim prays in the ossuary of Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

Military intelligence officer Volodymyr Yakhtorovych, 41, receives the Holy Communion by Father Epifaneios, during a service at the church of the Pantokratoros Monastery in Mount Athos ...

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