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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 ...
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 known as Simonopetra — ...
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community ...
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The Panagia Soumela Icon, the Symbol of Hellenism in Pontus
The holy icon of Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Holy Church in Vermio, northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus.