Mount Athos Monasteries on CBS 60 Minutes

Mount Athos Monasteries (gcttrends.blogspot.com) - The Holy Mountain Athos, the over a thousand year sanctuary of Orthodox Christian monasticism, and which is directly under the spiritual jurisdiction of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, will be featured on the CBS News program “60 Minutes”, listed to air on Paschal Sunday. The segment, “The Monks of Mount Athos”, will recount 60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon’s journey to a remote peninsula in North Greece that millions of Orthodox Christians consider the majority sacred place on earth, Mount Athos.

On the proposal and with the blessing of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who opened the doors for the “60 Minutes” team, and after two trips to the mountain and two years of conversation with the Anthonite society, last Fall Simon and the “60 Minutes” team were given unparalleled access to document monastic life on the Holy Mountain. The result is a portrait of a position rarely seen where prayer has been obtainable by holy men every day, with no interruption, for extra than a thousand years.

The “Monks of Mount Athos” will be televise Sunday, April 24, 2011 on the CBS Television Network at 7:00 PM EST. Harry Radliffe and Michael Karzis are the producer of the segment.