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A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy founded more than one thousand years ago, is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter of Catholicism. The Orthodox monastery is a remnant of ten monks belonging ...

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and quiet devotion high above the Aegean Sea in a whitewashed monastery wedged into the cliffside of Amorgos — an enduring spiritual haven amid a rapidly modernising Greece. Now in his 70s, the island ...

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