It’s 3:45 a.m. on a Saturday and I am outside the Holy Monastery of St. 
John the Divine, wondering if my invitation to join the monks in an 
overnight prayer service will be honored. The locked gates to one of the
 world’s most revered holy places are themselves imposing, looming high 
above the port of Skala on this island in the eastern Aegean.
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