The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

Sinai and talks about the monks’ manuscript preservation efforts: Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert and ...

The King has sought support from a Greek Orthodox monk in the wake of his cancer diagnosis. The monarch is said to have turned to Archimandrite Ephraim for spiritual advice after the health scare ...

This transpired after her miracle-working relics were brought to Rouen by monks in the 11 th century. As magnet to pilgrims from every corner of the globe, the Greek Orthodox monastery embodies a past ...

“The history and the spirituality of the Italo-Greek monks in Byzantine [1] Southern Italy and Sicily is the account of a people faithful to their Orthodox Faith and their Byzantine culture in ...

Christian monks (derived from the Greek root monos ... where shipments from the outside world and newly arrived Eastern Orthodox pilgrims are deposited. (Visitors must apply for a special permit ...

Pope Francis referred to a third meaning of the creed on the spiritual level and asked his listeners not to forget that the ...