Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a view into 18th-century monastic life.

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

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Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece.

In Maaloula, Father Barkil oversees its Greek Catholic Church and the Monastery of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, whose fourth-century sanctuary is partially hewed from a peak overlooking the town.

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The monastery, which once housed Greek Catholic monks who followed the rule of St. Basil, was built around 400 years after the church was established.

Mount Athos is a self-governed monastic territory in Greece, home to centuries-old monasteries where monks live in devotion to prayer and spiritual life. Women are banned from entering the area.