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 ...

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 ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

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 ...

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 motorboats carrying male prostitutes are constantly reported chugging into the monastery harbors. Today many Greek laymen regard Mount Athos as a senile, decadent, insufferable vestige of its ...

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 ...

An Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzantine times. The 'Holy Mountain', which is forbidden to women and children, is also a recognized ...

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.