For the hermit monks of Karoulia, the most remote area of Mount Athos, climbing dangerous rocks and prayer are a part of ...

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — Fire crews worked to ensure a porch fire did not spread to the interior of a home Monday, ...

The Stukas swooped across the Aegean skies like dark, dreadful birds, but they dropped no bombs on the monks of Mount Athos. The motorized Nazi hordes rumbled across the Salonikan peninsula ...

Mihailo Tolotos, a Greek monk, lived 82 years on Mount Athos, never seeing a woman or experiencing modern life, following ancient monastic rules.

Studio Pale designer Leda Athanasopoulou honors and elevates local artisanship on the island of PatmosOriginally Appeared on ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered a sacred site for Eastern Orthodox Christians, after Greek police sent a letter on July 16 ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

Mihailo Tolotos, born in 1856, lived an extraordinary life of isolation on Mount Athos, a Greek monastery where women are ...

The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within Greece and removal of timber from the forests by monks resident in Mt. Athos is permitted under a law gazetted in 24 ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of ...

True or a folklore, this is for you to decide. This is the story of a man, raised by monk, who is claimed to have lived 82 ...