The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of the more recently deceased scratched onto their foreheads — Monk Theolothelis, 91, 26-6-1986, or Monk ...
2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...
The present article focuses on three hitherto unknown and several less known manuscripts of classical authors preserved in the libraries of Mount Athos. Two fragments from the monastery of Vatopedi (2 ...
Hear the late Bob Simon talk about one of his favorite 60 Minutes reports called "Mount Athos," which was first broadcast in April 2011. Simon received rare access to the monasteries at Mt. Athos on a ...