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

while others record that the Georgian monks of the Holy Mountain were subject to the Latin persecutions over the course of four years, from 1276 to 1280. 29 мая 2007 г. Venerable Ekvtime of Mt. Athos, ...

The prayer was granted, and before Mary departed she blessed the residents and announced that the Holy Mountain was hers. There is a strong belief among the monks living on Mount Athos that Mary ...

The monks of Mt. Athos, the reigning Abbess of which is the Most Holy ... Here is an excerpt from his book, The Holy Mountain (Institute For Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2nd Edition, 2001): I ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

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

"I can’t see why the monastery should do that. I’d better not rely on rumors." When asked whether the Holy Kinot (Mount Athos’ central administrative body comprised of representatives from ...

"65 million years ago, prehistoric Earth had a visitor." ‘Dial of Destiny’ is an uninspiring ending to the Indiana Jones franchise. While better than 'Crystal ...

It was written by an elderly monk called Ilarion. Before moving to a remoter, Caucasian spot, he had spent many years at St Panteleimon’s (see picture above), the biggest Russian house on Athos ...