Dan found it hard to adjust to life in the monastery.

We stopped at the monastery and went inside.

These monks live inside the monastery.

Gradlon was a saintly and pious man, and acted as patron to Gwénnolé, founder and first abbé of the first monastery built in Armorica.

They visited the monastery gardens.

We climbed uphill with the Red Sea on the left and on the right the rugged mountains of Sinai, at the heart of which nestles the monastery.

“This return marks a glorious achievement,” said Bishop Pavlos of the northeastern Greek city of Drama, who oversees the monastery.

St. Benedict established his first monastery on top of Monte Cassino.

The U.S.-based Museum of the Bible, which holds some of the world’s most revered collections of religious manuscripts, agreed last week to return a rare 10th century gospel book to the Monastery of Theotokos Eikosiphinisa in northern Greece.

The monk is in the monastery.