Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, looks out from the chapel of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) ...

The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea is illuminated by the sun in Amorgos island, Greece, on Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved ... But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons ...

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Settled back at his whitewashed monastery perched between sky and sea, the monk was elated. Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, looks out from the chapel of the Monastery of ...

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For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into ... But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons of local life ...

and quiet devotion high above the Aegean Sea in a whitewashed monastery wedged into the cliffside of Amorgos — an enduring spiritual haven amid a rapidly modernising Greece. Now in his 70s, the island ...