MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock, the Christian ...

The Life of Saint Sava is the fundamental hagiographic narrative about the founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the spiritual founder of Serbian statehood.

CAMBRIDGE, New York After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir. Lucy ...

So how does an unbeliever like me end up in a place that, according to my spiritual cohabitants for seven nights, lies closest to God? Perhaps because there must be a place for middle-aged Australian ...

Syria A Greek Orthodox monk from St George’s monastery points at the convent of Our Lady of Saidnaya, which was built for Byzantine Emperor Justinian I when he was fighting against Persians. Today, ...

As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft.

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