Two days after leaving the monastery, I was told I had to vacate my home. It all aligned effortlessly. Today, I live in the Middle East. I meditate daily for an hour. I host breathwork sessions ...

Then he eventually joined a monastery in Thailand. 'I had been in the Army since I was 17 and always struggled with confidence, but back then, drinking masked my social anxiety,' he recounted in ...

Mauro Lepori, the general abbot of the Cistercian order, frames the storm that has shaken the monastery of San Giacomo di Veglia, culminating in the escape of five nuns following the removal of ...

However, Panagia Paraportiani is by far the most famous. Sitting in Chora's Kastro (castle) neighborhood, this whitewashed church dates to the Byzantine era and features a variety of religious ...

The Monastery of Paleokastro (or "Old Castle ... There is a trail along the ridge that you can follow to Church of Panagia Eleimonitria – Moroergo; it takes around 45 minutes to complete ...

The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture. It symbolizes two significant events in world history that occurred in 1492: the Reconquest of the ...

137 493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God "the All-Holy" (Panagia), and celebrate her as "free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as ...

The Apsis from the outside of the monastery. Credit: Unknown, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Imagine the walls that have soaked up nearly sixteen hundred years of history in one of Constantinople’s ...