Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...