One thing you want to be sure to add to your itinerary is visiting the ancient Greek monasteries. Here are the top 10 ...

According to rigidly enforced custom, women have been forbidden to visit Mount Athos since its earliest days—a position born out of weakness rather than spite. As one monk says, "If women were ...

TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

Athos for more than ten years in one of the sketes of St. Panteleimon Monastery—the Old Russikon. Namely there, at the mill just a few decades earlier Venerable Silouan the Athonite carried out his ...

Traveling as a woman can be quite the adventure, especially when some destinations have gender-based access restrictions. Let ...

It began with a heartfelt request by the Russian Fund St. Andrew the First-called to the abbot of Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos, Archimandrite Ephraim, and a blessing from His Holiness Patriarch ...

Many monks engage in farming, manuscript preservation, and iconography—continuing traditions that date back centuries. Access to Mount Athos is highly controlled, with only 100 Orthodox and 10 ...

St. Gregory Palamas lived in Greece in the 14th century. The Byzantine Emperor himself helped raise and educate St. Gregory, but the saint left the court to become a humble ...

The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within Greece and removal of timber from the forests by monks resident in Mt. Athos is permitted under a law gazetted in 24 ...