Sentences with phrase «small monastery»

In central Colorado, far from the traditional centers of Orthodoxy in Constantinople, Moscow and Mount Athos, is a small monastery where five monks live together on the sagebrush foothills of the Buffalo Range.

This year i have the privilege to celebrate Christmas once more at a small monastery in a lovely lake region of my native Austria.

And the social side of my year in Germany provides many treasured memories: cheerful trips to the mountains, nice gatherings in someone's house, and the magnificent evening concerts in the small monastery nearby.

This boy was serving at a small monastery on a hillside overlooking Inle Lake.

Having made the island his home in 1939, he went on to build a small monastery that's still a feature of the mountain today.

MONTSERRAT, Spain — On a hot day in June, the craggy slopes of Montserrat towering above him, the Irish - American painter Sean Scully walked toward the entrance of a small monastery about an hour's drive from Barcelona.