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

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

From formerly enslaved runaway to revered saint, St. Moses the Black's life tells ... his life of crime and sought peace inside a remote monastery in the desert of Wadi El Natrun, then called ...

Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian monk prays to the icon ... joined the monastery straight out of high school in the summer of 1971. Father Spyridon, another ...

where both the icon and the chisel are still on view in the small chapel that anchors the complex. Spyridon, who was born on Amorgos, joined the monastery straight out of high school in 1971 ...