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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

From January 27 to March 26 the exhibition “Holy Mountain: Icons from Mount Athos and Photographs by Frank Horlbeck” was on display in the Oscar F. and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery of the Chazen ...

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.

But the monks of Mt Athos in Greece now fear that the peace and quiet of their all-male sanctuary is at risk from a new law that allows people to change their gender. The law, which was passed ...