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PHOTO ESSAY: In a Greek island monastery, a monk has kept together faith and community for 50 years
For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...
Photo Gallery: From Greek monastery on island cliffside, prayer lift up wonders of the night sky
AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start ...
As Orthodox Christianity rises, its Houston home races to wrap expansion
A Texas Green Orthodox church is embarking on the final phase of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong expansion project amid ...
Follow the divine topography of this Greek pilgrimage for monks
Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...
Greek monk keeps faith, community together
Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...
Meet the monk who lives in the cliffs on a Greek holiday island
Meet the monk who lives in the cliffs on a Greek holiday island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...
An AP photographer uses the clouds to give his shot depth and clarity
An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...