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Feb. 28 In the Laphig, enou monestry on Mount !tiros In the north of Greece, 40 monks ere re using to oomply, it, the decision of the oecumenical orthodox Patriarch in Konstentinopel. These monks ere known to be the rebellious core of the inlets -.ho stick to en extreme traditionalism. It actuelly all started in 1924, whenthe eutonomoue Greek orthodox church decided to conform to the tiro ;origin ceiender, like the rest of the Christian western world end nbendoned the Julian oilender. This split the Greek orthodox cherch although both considered thr Patrlrrch in Konetentinopel their heed. Tho calendar problem came to o hand when the orthodox church hew to open towards the rest and the aohis.e between the Rom. C, tholic church end gonstentinopel which existed since 1054 wee abolished in 1965 and, hen Pope Paul VI visited Konstentinopel in 1967 end the oecumenical orthodox patriarch Athenegorns returned this visit by going toRome in the same year, the Zelots refused to include the orthodox petriorch in their prryors. In the coarse of those even. the Zelote. be ;nn to coneentrrte in four.nonestries on Athos and st, eted disobeying orders. The Athos monks refused to admit three delexetions, so in llam) this year etern meaeures were served on the disobeyln, including the remove of the Abbot Athenrsius and eeny other senior brethers. The petrinrch decision actuelly tri7lered the fierce reactions by the Zelots. who made the Esphigmenou monastery their headeuerters end eountorected by closing the gates and cutting themselves off fro: the outside, orld. The self-confined Zelote insist on the..ithdrrwl of the petrlerches decision and the abbots end monks, ho one expelled from the Athos by the verdict found refuge from the seizure of the executing authorities at the monastery with the Zelots rho hoisted e black flog from their belfry.nd :rote on their banner, Orthodoxy or death

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