Journey to Mount Athos: A Spiritual Pilgrimage from Joliet to a Greek Orthodox Monastery on the Holy Mountain

A young men's fellowship group is formed in Joliet, IL in 1987. The four college students and a young professor began reading Greek and Russian Orthodox books on aestheticism and plan to visit Mount Athos, a peninsula in Northern Greece devoted to monastic communities and still governed under Byzantine law. The first half of the book describes the misadventures of the boys as they perform clean-up operations at Greek food festivals in the Chicago area to raise money. Finally, miraculously, they …