For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox ... foot on Mount Athos, and blessed its pagan inhabitants, who then converted). He forms an intense bond with his monastery's ...

TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

who possess explosives and guns inside the monastery,” he added. The Esphigmenou monks residing on Mount Athos have rebranded as Genuine Orthodox Christians, to distinguish themselves from ...

and between 1259 and 1306 the pope’s private army devastated Mt. Athos several times. Monks of Zographou and Vatopedi monasteries and the Protaton were martyred for the Orthodox Faith, and the monks ...

Born in 1856 in Halkidiki, Greece, Tolotos lost his mother just moments after birth. Orphaned and alone, he was taken in by Orthodox monks at the Mount Athos monastery, one of the most secluded and ...

TASS/. Russian Orthodox Church believers will not be able to worship and receive communion at Mount Athos churches and cathedrals because of the severance of relations between the Moscow ...

Mihailo Tolotos, a Greek monk, lived 82 years on Mount Athos, never seeing a woman or experiencing modern life, following ancient monastic rules.