Greek monk keeps faith, community together

For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea. Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery has changed little since it was founded more than a millennium ago on the Greek island of Amorgos. And even as Greece rapidly secularizes alongside the rest of Europe, and islands like Amorgos wrestle with the massive growth of tourism, a few Orthodox Christian monks like Spyridon remain icons of local life. Locals continue to go to him for spiritual advice and praise his care for all visitors.