NOUN
- an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century
How To Use Mount Athos In A Sentence
- It requires more than faith, though, to write with vigor and perception about Mount Athos without having set foot on the place; and it is hard to see what new or unique perspective Ms. della Dora brings to her subject. A Fossil With Flesh
- Today, Mount Athos is home to some 1,800 monks living in 20 monasteries and outlying hermitages. A Fossil With Flesh
- Since the accommodation for visitors on Mount Athos is more than basic, we had to share one and the same cell in the monastery of Philotheu.
- M. Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public Instruction to King Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the long suspected and wished-for choliambic version of Babrias. Fables
- Under current Greek law, a woman caught on Mount Athos faces an automatic prison sentence of up to a year. A Fossil With Flesh
- The highest summit of this rocky pile was called Mount Athos in ancient times, and is so marked upon the map. Xerxes Makers of History
- It is now only exceptionally that the cantharus is found doing service as a holy water font, mainly at Mount Athos, where the phiala of the monastery of Laura stands near the catholicon in front of the entrance and is covered by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
- She describes her book as the story of Mount Athos "in the geographical imagination. A Fossil With Flesh
- In the fourteenth century a pseudo-spiritualism akin to that of the ancient Euchites or Messalians, culminating in the famous Hesychast controversies (see HESYCHASM; PALAMAS), greatly disturbed the mutual harmony of Greek monasteries, especially those of Mount Athos, one of whose monks, Callistus, had become Patriarch of Constantinople The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- An unavoidable point about Mount Athos, perhaps the chief point, is the way in which, as a place, it operates on you when you are there. A Fossil With Flesh
