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Greek Orthodox monks of the Grand Lavra monastery, Athos, Greece. There are some 20 Greek Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos, which comprise a semiautonomous republic.
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St Anne's monastery, Athos, Greece. Most of Mount Athos's 20 monasteries are built close to the coast and consist of a quadrangle of buildings surrounding a church. They contain important examples of Byzantine art as well as a great number of medieval and classical manuscripts.

Mountainous peninsula on the Macedonian coast of Greece. Its peak is 2,033 m/6,672 ft high. The promontory is occupied by a group of 20 Orthodox monasteries, inhabited by some 3,000 monks and lay brothers. A council of representatives from the monasteries runs the affairs of the peninsula as a self-governing republic under the protection of the Greek government.



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You know what Athos told you the other day; you eat at everybody's mess.
A brow white and void of wrinkles, beneath his long hair, now more white than black; an eye piercing and mild, under the lids of a young man; his mustache, fine but slightly grizzled, waved over lips of a pure and delicate model, as if they had never been curled by mortal passions; a form straight and supple; an irreproachable but thin hand -- this was what remained of the illustrious gentleman whom so many illustrious mouths had praised under the name of Athos.
Since the departure of Athos for Blois, Porthos and D'Artagnan were seldom together.
 
 
 
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