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Greek monk hospitalized after monastery clash linked to decades-old dispute
A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious ...
Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...
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On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece -- MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged ...
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years MOUNT ATHOS, Greece -- Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in ...
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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks ...
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community ...
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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...