Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos ... what matters most for monks. "Politics is none of the monks’ business," he said. "We, the Athos monks, are ...

The holy peninsula of Mount Athos ... "monastery life can be absolutely consumed with pettiness." However, the very best of them do not merely radiate goodwill but seek out where it's most needed.

Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading ...