When a plague of snakes almost prevented the building of what is now known as the Holy Monastery ... originally began on the monastery in 327 CE on the island of Cyprus under the patronage of ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Cyprus is an island with a strong Christian ... the construction of numerous churches and monasteries including the Holy Monastery of Saint Nicholas of the Cats in Limassol at the beginning ...