For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

Although geographically distant from each other, these three monasteries (the first is in Attica, near Athens, the second in Phocida near Delphi, and the third on an island in the Aegean Sea, near ...

Mar. 26 - As any student of drama can tell you, an important source of theater in the West was the cathedrals and monasteries of Europe as clerics attempted to "act out" stories from the Bible in an ...

The Monastery of Jerónimos or the Jerónimos Monastery, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Lisbon's Belém district. Exemplifying Portugal's Manueline style – a highly ornate style of ...

The Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris. This is one of the few pictures of the inside of a medieval hospital There were also leper hospitals. These were on the outskirts of towns so that lepers could ...

The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their lives to silent prayer inside Florence’s Santo Spirito monastery, are preparing to go into battle over ...

Bhutan's enchanting monasteries, including Taktshang Monastery on a cliff in Paro Valley and Punakha Dzong at the confluence of rivers, offer serene escapes into Buddhist traditions and spiritual ...

Monasteries were places where monks lived ... that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a dispute occurred between King Henry II and ...

2009 Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios. Monastery of Daphni. Map 2/2 Clarification / adopted 2009 Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios. Monastery of ...