Campbell County, Va. (WSET) — Multiple fire agencies responded to a structure fire on Mt. Athos Road on Thursday. The call ...

LONDON, Jan. 27.—Cabling from Vienna, a correspondent of The Daily Chronicle says that the newspapers of Athens report that the celebrated Saint Paul Monastery, on Mount Athos, was partially ...

On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also ...

Mount Athos, also known as the Holy Mountain, is a unique place on the cultural and spiritual map of Europe. Home to a community of 20 monasteries inhabited by monks for centuries, ...

Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, stands on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Sunday, April 13, 2025.

Converting from Catholicism to Orthodoxy on Mount Athos, Makarios is now the monastery’s librarian. He has been living in Simonos Petra for 46 years. All (men) are welcome ...

Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, stands on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Sunday, April 13, 2025.

His search led him to Mount Athos for the first time in 1975. “I found this monastery and an embrace,” he said. “I found people who understood and accepted me.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks ...