For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

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

But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons ... to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the ...

At the foothills of the Pierian Mountains, near the Aliakmon River, lies the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner in the Skete of Veria ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start ...

In 50-Plus Years at a Cliffside Greek Island Monastery ... nearly eight-hour ferry trip from Athens. Orthodox monk welcomes the world to island monastery Settled back at his whitewashed monastery ...

worked and welcomed the faithful in a millennium-old monastery carved into a seaside cliff on the Greek island of Amorgos. Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian ...