An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal monasteries ...

A series of earthquakes has damaged centuries-old monasteries in Mount Athos, Greece, including severe cracks in the ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

Mount Athos is one of the most important religious sites for Orthodox Christians, and is often referred to as the Holy Mountain.(AP) A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck the Mount Athos peninsula on ...

A recent earthquake in northern Greece caused damage to three centuries-old monasteries on Mount Athos, BGNES reported. The Bulgarian monastery of St. George Zograf, also on Mount Athos ...

At least three centuries-old Greek monasteries in the religious enclave of Mount Athos were damaged in an earthquake over the weekend, the culture ministry said Wednesday.

Significant Greek police forces were deployed July 23 to Mount Athos in a new attempt to expel 118 monks of the rebellious Esphigmenou Monastery. The dissident monks, known as “old-calendarists ...

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But in the Greek Orthodox tradition, the inverse may apply. “On Mount Athos, for more recent deaths, a body that hasn’t decomposed fully into a skeleton is seen as a bad sign regarding the ...