Bunk In With A Monk

Bunk In With A Monk There is so much history in and around Greece and its Islands, from Spinalonga Island in Crete to The Church of Saint Gerasimos in Kefalonia.  Each individual island has so much history and culture to discover you could spend your whole life just travelling around them to witness and experience [...]

Alexander Humez: Coauthoring: All for One And One for the Books

Mt. Athos – Simonopetro Convent [i.e., Simonopetra Monastery] (LOC) Image by The Library of Congress Bain News Service,, publisher. Mt. Athos – Simonopetro Convent [i.e., Simonopetra Monastery] [between 1910 and 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from negative, with corrected name from the source: Flickr Commons project, [...]

Holy Mount Athos- Elders & Hermits-Psalm 50

  They are distinct from the world, because of their special conduct and their exemplary ethical life.They are known as the "anchorites" (from anachoresis: departure, flight); the hermits (from eremos: desert); and the monastics (from monos: alone, for a monastic "lives in the presence of God alone"). Video Rating: 4 / 5