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Friday, May 27, 2016

Things to know about Mount Athos: 1,500 monks, no women

Christian Orthodox believers know Greece's heavily-forested northern peninsula of Mount Athos as the "Orchard of the Virgin Mary," but women have been strictly barred from entering it for more than a thousand years.


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