In the silence of the desert, Matta El Maskine (1919–2006) found God—and transformed modern Coptic monasticism. His life of ...

Legend also holds that the family remained in Egypt for three years ... After taking his vows, he was assigned to small St. Anthony Coptic Monastery outside Barstow, California—from which ...

She's actually based in LA as well as in Boston. So you opened the book in Lebanon at the Maronite Catholic Monastery of St. Anthony of Qozhaya in the Kadisha Valley. And you had a conversation with ...

The pope also met with Barnabas, Bishop of Turin and Rome, who submitted a report on the Diocese of Southern Germany and the Monastery of St. Anthony in Krefelbach. Finally, the pope recorded a ...

Saint Anthony, the patron saint of Veria; Saint Gregory Palamas; Saint Dionysios of Olympus; and Saint Athanasios. In the 18th century, Saint Kosmas of Aetolia lived in the monastery while ...

Beyond it, halfway up the mountain, the thick walls of the Monastery of St ... it holds the remains of St. Katherine, who was martyred in Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century.

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

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

The Monastery of Jerónimos or the Jerónimos Monastery ... Tourists can also stop by the Chapel of St. Jerome and the tombs, which contain notable Portuguese people in history, including a ...

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