Similarly, she was careful to donate generously to the local Greek monasteries on Sicily as a way of currying favor with the pre-existing religious authorities.

He harbored hundreds of Jews in his residence and in Greek Catholic monasteries.

Before the use of church bells, Greek monasteries would ring a flat metal plate (see semantron) to announce services.

In the 8th and 9th century, San Saba was one of the most prestigious of Rome and among the leading "Greek" monasteries.

But the gradual hellenization of those regions, as well as the founding of numerous Greek monasteries, must have affected liturgical life.

Saint Nilus the Younger died in this Greek monastery on 27 December 1005.

Incubation was adopted by certain Christian sects and is still used in a few Greek monasteries.

Greek monasteries 'suspended in air'

On Monday, after eating his portion of rice at about 1 p.m., he jumped over the wall of the Greek monastery.

Listen: a few years ago I was at some scraggy little Greek monastery somewhere, and they had a book.