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On Greece’s Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.