Hollywood actor Mel Gibson visited the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, connecting with the historic Orthodox ...

Mount Athos, the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, which has steadfastly preserved its Orthodox identity, is a peninsula in northern Greece home to twenty monasteries and other ...

That, in turn, led him to Mount Athos in 2006. “It was in essence a deep searching of spiritual life, which is the answer for the meaning of life,” he said. Within the monastery, he found a ...

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