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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world — as long as they’re men
The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on long tradition of monastic life at medieval cliffside monastery
The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
Here is a look at four of Simonos Petra's monks, and how they view Mount Athos: Abbot of Simonos Petra since 2000, Eliseos has been living in the monastery since 1973. On Mount Athos ...
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
born in Vietnam Isaiah has been living in Simonos Petra since 2006, arriving there from an affiliated monastery in France as part of a spiritual quest. On what brought him to Mount Athos ...
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
Abbot of Simonos Petra since 2000, Eliseos has been living in the monastery since 1973. On Mount Athos: “Truly Mount Athos spiritually has no borders. It is a place, a center of Christian ...