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11:14 December 20th, 2006

Monks in a melee, the Orthodox go unorthodox…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

It was a real rumble, like something out of a teenage gang movie. Those monks were swinging their sledgehammers and crowbars in the chapel, and then… Wait, back up. Monks? Sledgehammers? Chapel?

Not to sound too jaded or anything, but as a journalist you can go your whole career without getting to write a headline like Greek monks clash on Mount Athos, seven injured.

And yet, here it is. Karolos Grohmann reports: monk.jpg

An Orthodox monk walks in courtyard of a monastery of autonomous community of Mount Athos in northern Greece in an undated file photo. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis

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