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Feb. 29 Militant Monks On Mount Athos.. In the Esphigmenou monastery on Mount those in the north of Greece, 40 monks are refusing to comply with the decision of the ecumenical orthodox Patriarch in Konstenitnopel. These monks are known to be the rebellious core of the Zelots who stick to an extreme traditionalism. In actually all started in 1924, When the autonomous Greek orthodox church decided to conform to the Gregorian calendar, like the rest of the Christian western world and abandoned the Julian Calendar. This split the Greek orthodox church in two, although both considered the Patriarch in Konstantinopel their head. The calendar problem came to a head when the orthodox church began to open towards the West and the Schism between the Roman Catholic Church and Konstantinopel which existed since 1054 was abolished in 1965 and when Pope Paul VI visited Constantinople in 1967 and the ecumenical orthodox patriarch Athenagoras returned this visit by going to Rome in the same year, the Zelots refused to include the orthodox Patriarch in their prayers. In the course of these events the Zelots began to concentrate in four monasteries on Athos and started disobeying orders. The Athos monks refused to admit three delegations, so in March this year stern measures were served on the disobeying monks, including the removal of the Abbott Athanasius and many other senior brothers. The Patriarch decision actually triggered the fierce reactions by the Zelots who made the Esphigmenou monastery their head quarters and counteracted by closing the gates and cutting themselves off from the outside world. The Athos by the verdict found refuge from the seizue of the executing authorities at the monastery with the Zelots who hoisted a black flag from their belfry and wrote on their banner, hoisted a black flag from their belfry and wrote on their banner Orthodoxy or death

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