In their heavy beards and black garb—worn to signify their death to the world—the monks seem to recede into a Byzantine fresco, an ageless brotherhood of ritual, acute simplicity, and constant ...

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The painting looked like an ancient relic discovered in some long-forgotten desert monastery in the Holy Land, a ...

Accept and continue Ukraine is home to seven Unesco world heritage sites, including the St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv with its wonderful golden domes and stunning Byzantine fresco of the Virgin Mary ...

Andrew Jotischky’s history of cloistered life, The Monastic World, has masterful range – but risks becoming as ascetic as its ...

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

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It’s a stone-cold truth that Venice’s tourist tax, entry fee and crowds – with up to 40,000 visitors arriving a day – detract ...

Pope Francis named a New Mexico pastor as bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy, apostolic nuncio to the United States Cardinal Christophe Pierre announced on Friday. Father Artur Bubnevych ...

Drop in on George Triantafyllou, an iconographer who paints and repairs the island’s churches and offers workshops teaching the techniques of the Byzantine fresco painters. Find some of the best ...