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Postcard From Cyprus

A meeting with 'Father Maximos' at a mountain monastery

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Rod Dreher
Aug 12, 2022
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Self with Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol — ‘Father Maximos’ of ‘The Mountain of Silence’

Good morning from the airport in Larnaca, Cyprus. I’m heading back to Vienna after a short trip to this island nation to interview Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol, who achieved fame in the United States as the “Father Maximos” of Kyriacos Markides’s wonderfu…

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