has participated in the festivities on Holy Mount Athos dedicated to Venerable Athanasius the Athonite in the Great Lavra Monastery, which had been founded by him. The night before, July 4/17, a ...

The abbot cuts a tiny cross out of the hair on his scalp, bestows him with the name of a saint, and a monk is born. Their stories hardly end when they enter Mount Athos. A wayward hippie from ...

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 ...