The buildings were used for a variety of purposes, from mealtimes to “industrial activities” that kept the site running.

History credits monasteries for carrying classical thought, art and culture through the violent, chaotic years following the ...

Even without retreating to the desert, we can train our wandering minds with ancient monastic wisdom. “The question of focus,” argues Benedictine historian Columba Stewart, “is the single most ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known ...