A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Mount Athos in northeastern Greece late on Saturday afternoon, generating concerns.

Mount Athos is a craggy peak 2000m high, overlooking a peninsula 50km long and about 10km wide. Although it’s a promontory, not an island, there’s no land access from the mainland. The only ...

The Mount Athos is known to the inhabitants as the Garden of the Mother of God. According to the tradition of the Holy Mountain, Mary the Mother of Jesus set foot on the island by providential chance.