Missed it. There was an exhibit of the treasures from Mount Athos, most of them leaving Greece for the first time, at the Petit Palais in Paris that closed July 5.They included icons, liturgical vestments, chalices, reliquaries, illuminated manuscripts, medallions, mosaics and chrysobulls -- imperial decrees with golden seals.
Mount Athos is a self-governed monastic community under the protection of Greece, composed of 20 monasteries scattered around a territory of more than 300 square kilometres. Built over a period of roughly 700 years (eight to the fourteenth centuries), nearly half of the monasteries date from the tenth century.
Women were allowed in to see the treasures while they were in Paris - unlike the situation back home in Greece.
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