A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...
After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his ...
Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the New Skete monastery, where he directs the dog breeding program that has provided both ...
Lucy and Iso excitedly woofed as they spotted the Orthodox monk, who heads the monastery’s German shepherd breeding program, ...
A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.
Inside the dazzling white Valamo monastery, the country’s only Eastern Orthodox abbey, the day begins at 6am with prayers, ...