Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

The sun dips low over the rugged cliffs of Meteora, casting golden hues across monasteries perched impossibly atop stone ...

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Ilja, Kirill's spiritual father, had been awarded the highest monastic title, that of ‘archimandrite with the skhima’, a ...

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St. Gregory Palamas lived in Greece in the 14th century. The Byzantine Emperor himself helped raise and educate St. Gregory, but the saint left the court to become a humble ...

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TOPSHAM, Maine (WGME) – Officials say the shelter-in-place order for MSAD 75 schools has been lifted after a missing Mt. Ararat High School student was found. According to MSAD 75 Superintendent ...

Another nearby volcano that erupted in 2009, Mount Readout, showed volcanic tremor for two months before it blew its top. "If we see [tremor]," Haney said, "that will be the next sign that Spurr ...

Many monks engage in farming, manuscript preservation, and iconography—continuing traditions that date back centuries. Access to Mount Athos is highly controlled, with only 100 Orthodox and 10 ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

"Do you want me to sort the two of them out?," says Moore as 'The Monk'. "Jesus Christ, Gerry, no. Just don't speak. I'll do the talking - you look tough, okay?" quips Moore as the Taoiseach again.