The highlight is a 14th century icon of Christ. Every monk will tell you the sole purpose of life on Mount Athos is to get closer to Christ every day. And they say total union with Christ is only ...

Central to much of the secrecy shrouding Mount Athos over the centuries is the vast hoard of Byzantine art, icons, relics and manuscripts, some displayed but most cloistered in monastery vaults.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal monasteries ...

While most of Mount Athos' 1,500 monks are Greek-born ... which include centuries-old wall-paintings and icons, manuscripts and religious artifacts. The monasteries believe women might offer ...

1290 and by Frangos Catellanos at the Great Lavra in 1560) to portable icons, gold objects, embroideries and illuminated manuscripts which each monastery jealously preserves. Criterion (ii): Mount ...

Throughout Bright Week, in all the monasteries, sketes, and kellia of Mount Athos, cross processions are held every year. On Bright Monday the first procession took place with the miracle-working icon ...

At least three centuries-old Greek monasteries in the religious enclave of Mount Athos were damaged in an earthquake over the ...

The highlight: a 14th century icon of Christ. Every monk will tell you the sole purpose of life on Mount Athos is to get closer to Christ every day. And they say total union with Christ is only ...

“There is both historical holiness here in terms of relics and icons, and living holiness through monasticism,” Damaskinos said. Alexandros Katsis contributed reporting from Mount ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The skulls ... After the morning meal, the monks work — gardening, cooking, painting icons — until it is time for vespers before sunset, the evening meal and bed.