Have you ever been to Aghio Oros?

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Been to it, heck, I've never even heard of it.

Answer 2

I have never been to Aghio Oros (Mount Athos), but i know some things from my uncle. He is a priest and spent half of his life there.

It's a very beautiful place, with rich wild nature. Many unique artifacts and relics that worth a visit to see them.

It's not a monastery, it's a peninsula known as the easternmost (or third) "leg" of the larger Chalcidice peninsula.

Politically it is known in Greece as the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. This World Heritage Site is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

According to the athonite tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary was sailing accompanied by St John the Evangelist from Joppa to Cyprus to visit Lazarus. When the ship was blown off course to then pagan Athos it was forced to anchor near the port of Klement, close to the present monastery of Iviron. The Virgin walked ashore and, overwhelmed by the wonderful and wild natural beauty of the mountain, she blessed it and asked her Son for it to be her garden. A voice was heard saying "Ἔστω ὁ τόπος οὖτος κλῆρος σός καί περιβόλαιον σόν καί παράδεισος, ἔτι δέ καί λιμήν σωτήριος τῶν θελόντων σωθῆναι" (Translation: "Let this place be your inheritance and your garden, a paradise and a haven of salvation for those seeking to be saved"). From that moment the mountain was consecrated as the garden of the Mother of God and was out of bounds to all other women.

It's important to remember that women cannot visit this region. Maybe is the only place in the world that women cannot visit.

Even the domestic animals are only male , with only exception cats (which keep down the rodent population) and chickens (which lay eggs that provide the fresh egg yolk needed for the paint used in iconography).

Answer 3

No, but I heard of Mount Athos where there is a beautiful Greek monastery carved in the mountains.

Answer 4

no