Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many moments of tumbling contemplation. When travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor ...

The monasteries of Meteora in Thessaly are perched atop mighty rock formations; the backdrop starred as a location in Game of ...

God put me here to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the tremors. During that brief absence ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery ...