Title: The monastic magnet
Subtitle: roads to and from Mount Athos
Description: Mount Athos has been exercising its magnetic attraction on monks and pilgrims for over a thousand years. Many of the papers collected here are concerned with aspects of pilgrimage to Athos and the effect that a visit to the Mountain has on pilgrims' lives.
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern monasteries, Congresses, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Church history, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Monasteries, Orthodox eastern church, greek
Places: Athos (Greece), Athos, Greece