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2. Serb Nuns Beaten, Tortured by Albanians at
Devic Monastery
KOSOVO, June 18 - Ethnic Albanian terrorists took over the Serb Devic (female)
monastery right after the Yugoslav police withdrew, as provided by the NATO "peace
process." The Albanians beat and tortured the nuns, according to the Mother Superior,
Anastasia.
The Albanians threatened the youngest nuns mostly, but the unity of sisterhood and
courage of the Mother Superior saved their "Angel image", as the Orthodox Christians
understand monastic oath for celibacy.
The confessor of the sisterhood of Devic monastery, old Fr. Seraphim, was forced by the
Albanians to carry a heavy load of monastery food and inventory, by day and by night.
The monastery has been "totally looted," according to Serb sources.
The ethnic Albanians desecrated and destroyed the altar of the Monastery church, and
damaged the fresco paintings in it. The relics of St. Joanikije of Devic, the greatest
sanctity of the Monastery Devic, were also ruined.
Today, a French K-FOR command decided that 10 of its soldiers should remain at the
Devic monastery to protect the nuns from further harassment. Patriarch Pavle is also
expected to visit the monastery today.
His most recent visit was in January, when he was also stopped and mistreated by armed
ethnic Albanians. (see our report about that incident, as told to the TiM editor by the
Patriarch Pavle himself, during this writer's visit to Belgrade in late April (Day 24, Update
1, Item 2, Apr. 17 - www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/day24up1.html)."
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