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Monk caught with nun's skeleton at airport
Herald Sun ^
| January 19, 2011
Posted on 01/18/2011 6:56:27 PM PST by Gamecock
A MONK and two other people were arrested after digging up the body of a nun they believe to be a saint and trying to smuggle the remains into Cyprus.
The 42-year-old Cypriot monk, a 54-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were arrested at Athens International Airport as they attempted to board a flight to Cyprus with the body stuffed in a suitcase, the Cyprus Mail said.
The Mail reported police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos as saying the trio "claim they took the remains of the woman, whom they consider a saint, to bury them in Cyprus".
Mr Katsounotos said Eleni Vathiadou's remains were taken from her grave in Greece following a memorial service to mark the fourth anniversary of her death.
"It appears to be the work of charlatans with a financial interest that is what I suspect," Cyprus's Archbishop Chrysostomos told Reuters today when asked about the monk's tale.
The three were charged with theft and desecrating a deceased person and will face court later this month, the report said. The monk was also suspended from his monastic duties at the Kykkos Monastery for three months for going away without leave, Cypriot police told Reuters.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: monk; nun
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posted on
01/18/2011 6:56:30 PM PST
by
Gamecock
To: Quix; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; RnMomof7; metmom; TSgt; Dr. Eckleburg
MONKeying around with corpses.
Tsk, tsk, tsk....
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posted on
01/18/2011 6:58:40 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(The resurrection of Jesus Christ is both historically credible and existentially satisfying. T.K.)
To: Gamecock
MONKeying around with corpses.I'll have none of your silly jokes.
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:02:00 PM PST
by
Miss_Meyet
(Goodbye, Tagline! It's not you, it's me.)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:02:32 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Gamecock
They were bad to the bones.
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:03:06 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:03:24 PM PST
by
Cheburashka
(Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: markomalley
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:06:12 PM PST
by
narses
( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
To: markomalley
Mind reading is against the rules.
And I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with Rome, but rather the Greek Orthodox.
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:06:29 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(The resurrection of Jesus Christ is both historically credible and existentially satisfying. T.K.)
To: Gamecock
Oh when the saints come flyin in.
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:07:13 PM PST
by
Batman11
(Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
To: Gamecock
Hmmmmm
I’d have thought they had better to do.
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:07:59 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Gamecock; Religion Moderator
Mind reading is against the rules. True.
RM, please delete my last post as a blatant violation of the rules.
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:09:07 PM PST
by
markomalley
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: Gamecock
“..and I’ve have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!..” said the Monk...
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:21:48 PM PST
by
J40000
To: Gamecock
He's the guy....
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:23:56 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: J40000
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:27:20 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:30:03 PM PST
by
mrsmith
To: Gamecock
That weren't no monk-
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:50:21 PM PST
by
mikrofon
("That's one good lookin' skeleton...")
To: Gamecock
"Did you check her?"
"No, she's in my carrion bag."
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
01/18/2011 7:56:57 PM PST
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
01/18/2011 8:09:37 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
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