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

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

I wanted to be here with my community, feel their emotions, because I’m responsible. God put me here to care for them,” he ...

Father Spyridon has been the soul of Amorgos' cliffside Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery—welcoming pilgrims, caring for locals, ...

the Orthodox Christian monk prays to the icon of the Virgin Mary that gives its name to the whitewashed complex perched between sky and sea – the Panagia Hozoviotissa. Advertisement Article ...

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

The Panagia ... the icon from the Iconoclasts. The monastery is perched on steep cliffs 300 meters (984 feet) above sea level. Incredibly, it is only visible from the sea. The famous Olympia shipwreck ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea is illuminated by the sun in Amorgos island, Greece, on Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) ...