Surrounded by flower-scented glens and gorges, veiled with pine and cypress and chestnut, are great Lavra Monastery ... autonomous ecclesiastical republic of Mount Athos, 1,000-year-old capital ...

Their stories hardly end when they enter Mount Athos. A wayward hippie from Australia named Peter is now Father Ierotheos, an accomplished baritone chanter at the Iviron monastery. Father ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite its location in Greece, Mount Athos operates as an autonomous monastic republic, with its own administration and laws. Access is strictly regulated-only male pilgrims and visitors are ...

Mihailo Tolotos, born in 1856, lived an extraordinary life of isolation on Mount Athos, a Greek monastery where women are forbidden. Raised by monks after being orphaned, he remarkably never saw a ...

Bushell, a Marblehead native, is executive chairman of St. Paul’s Foundation, a monastic institution of the monks of Mount Athos in Greece, a church, not a nonprofit. Its foundational documents are ...