Built into the side of a sheer cliff on Mount Ostrog, this 17th century Orthodox monastery draws thousands of pilgrims and visitors every year, curious to discover this sanctuary halfway between ...

Almost a year later, in a papal audience during a pilgrimage to Rome, in 1887, she asked for and obtained permission from Pope Leo XIII to enter the Carmelite Monastery (or the Carmel) at the ...

Funeral Mass for retired Marion banker Matthew H. Classen, 92, who passed away May 10, 2025, at Cox Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, will be 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 17, at Holy Trinity Catholic ...

The seminary was founded in the 1800s by the Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Monastery, but closed in 1971 when the law prohibited privately owned houses of religious education. For the past 10 years, ...

Gergeti Holy Trinity Church has to be the most photographed building ... It’s most famous for Jvari Monastery, which sits high above the city on the precipice of a little mountain. And though that’s ...

The Holy Trinity girls varsity flag football team defeated Columbia, 20-19, in overtime on Monday, May 12, at Nicholas Budnowski Field, in East Greenbush, N.Y. (PHOTO BY DREW WEMPLE – MEDIANEWS ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...

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Greece is dotted with several island monasteries that reflect the nation's glorious past and cultural heritage ...

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The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.