Mt athos

Presentation of Monastery of Agios Pavlos by gtp.gr

Here some new interesting pictures that I found lately: 1913: colourised photo above shows guards of a Greek monastery in Mount Athos, after having repelled Bulgarian invaders (1913). Some are pos…

Hermann Corrodi, Night on Mount Athos, 1880

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…

In the Gospel readings, we often come across the Apostles invoking the authenticity of their personal witness in order to be convincing:

Posts about David the Dendrite written by David

As Greece entered the pre-Easter season of Lent, Kathimerini newspaper’s food magazine Gastronomos, published a special 35-page section on the lenten cuisine of Mount Athos, featuring recipes from Monk Epifanios that have been a best-kept secret for centuries. It is a photographic record of the prominent figures of monastic cooking seen though the most basic of human enjoyments – food. In creating this historically and religiously important record of all the rich flavours of Athonias, I feel…

Artist from Mt. Athos stands next to painting of Saint Nicholas. Autochromes from Greece and the Greek Isles, early 1900s

Ouranoupoli, Mt Athos, Macedonia: northern Greece. Photography by vasilis anastasiadis