{"id":1447,"date":"2009-11-20T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/called-to-the-holy-mountain\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:13:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:13:03","slug":"called-to-the-holy-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/called-to-the-holy-mountain.html","title":{"rendered":"called to the Holy Mountain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate itself from the secular corpus of northeastern Greece. For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ. 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