For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

But Amorgos’ monastery serves another function too — a crucial reference point for locals, who seek the monks’ help, both ...

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For the hermit monks of Karoulia, the most remote area of Mount Athos, climbing dangerous rocks and prayer are a part of ...

They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks ... Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, exits the chapel at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

Orthodox monk welcomes the world to island monastery Settled back at his whitewashed ... They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks revealed a chisel hanging farther up the cliffside.

For over half a century, Father Spyridon Denaxas has lived a life of prayer, service, and quiet devotion high above the Aegean Sea in a whitewashed monastery wedged into the cliffside of Amorgos — an ...

Settled back at his whitewashed monastery perched between sky and sea, the monk was elated ... They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks revealed a chisel hanging farther up ...

But Amorgos' monastery serves another function too — a crucial reference point for locals, who seek the monks' help, both material and spiritual, as Eastern Christians have for nearly 2,000 years.