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A comment on Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016). Parent comment

Re:Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2... by _sunshine_ on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:51PM (#29513875)
You can get by with English, but you won't understand the service (which is in the monastery's main language, e.g. Greek/Russian/etc).
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Re:Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2... by raptorraver on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:04AM (#29537137)
Worth to mention that even some native greeks and russians have hard time understanding the services as russian monasteries are using Church Slavonic [1] and greek monasteries very old version of the Greek.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic

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