Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many moments of tumbling contemplation. When travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor ...

Settled back at his whitewashed monastery perched between sky and sea, the monk was elated ... They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks revealed a chisel hanging farther ...

Settled back at his whitewashed monastery perched between sky and sea, the monk was elated ... They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks revealed a chisel hanging farther ...

and that the Prior and nine monks perished, while twenty others were seriously injured. The occupants of the monastery were sleeping at the time the fire broke out, according to the Athens papers.

Orthodox monk welcomes the world to island monastery Settled back at his whitewashed ... They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks revealed a chisel hanging farther up the cliffside.

Orthodox monk welcomes the world to island monastery Settled back at his whitewashed ... They were building a shelter in a cave when falling rocks revealed a chisel hanging farther up the cliffside.