The monks of Mount Athos did not leave behind their human audacity ... a thousand-year-old monastery long tormented by pirates and fires and repressive Ottomans, but now a victim of its own ...

It is located at the monastery of Iviron. Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the reign of Theophilos (829-842) and traveled of its own power to Mount Athos where it arrived in a ...

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In their four-day stay, part of a psychological support programme organised by Ukrainian authorities, the soldiers made a pilgrimage to some dozen monasteries on the slopes of Mount Athos ...