Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

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According to Christian tradition, Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation here, after he was exiled to the island by the Romans in AD95, and in the 11th century, a Byzantine emperor bequeathed the ...