Mt athos

Snowball fighting monks...on Mt. Athos!

It is situated in the west foot of Athos, 20 min from the sea and is dedicated in the Presentation of Christ to th

Posts about David the Dendrite written by David

Night on Mount Athos - Hermann Corrodi 1880

Miraculous Icon of Panagia Portaitissa (the Keeper of the Portal) Panagia still works many miracles through the copies of her icon. A certain pious widow who lived not far from the town of Nicea, floated the icon on the waters of the sea, committing it to the case of the Theotokos...the son & widow the watched Icon afloat,the Holy Image did't sink, but floated westward in an upright position... it wasn't until after a 1/2 century later the icon was miraculously discovered at Mount Athos

Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Ivḗron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading Mt. Athos. In the 13th century the Crusaders stormed through the region, and between 1259 and…

Posts about Maynard Owen Williams written by Alejandro De La Garza

Our holy Father Euthymius was from the town of Tao in Georgia . He was the son of pious, noble and wealthy parents. When his father renounced the temporal and perishable splendor and glory of this world, preferring poverty in Christ which leads to heavenly riches, he donned the angelic schema of a…

Liked on Pinterest: Fresco at church in Mt. Athos monastery. Greece.