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On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian ...
“Monasteries don’t make much sense without monks,” says Fr Richard Purcell, abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey in west Waterford. The cleric is in reflective mood as the Cistercian abbey, near Cappoquin, ...
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