The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles ... Christian monks (derived from the Greek root monos, or "single") first began forming collective refuges, or monasteries, in the Egyptian ...
MOUNT ATHOS ... from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they hoped to escape haunting memories of the battlefield.
The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war ... the soldiers made a pilgrimage to some dozen monasteries on the slopes of Mount Athos, a spiritual centre since the 10th century.
On October 11, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople decided to proceed with granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church MOUNT ATHOS /Greece/, October 29.
open image in gallery Ukrainian soldier Ivan Kovalyk, 22, checks his phone at the Pantokratoros Monastery in Mount Athos, Greece, November 26, 2024 (REUTERS) Russia’s full-scale invasion of ...
The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war ... the soldiers made a pilgrimage to some dozen monasteries on the slopes of Mount Athos, a spiritual center since the 10th century.