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Old 10th Sep 2016, 10:56
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Following the split between Roman Catholicism and Orthodox churches the Czar and Russia saw themselves as the bastion and upholders of the Orthodox traditions. Nothing has changed really. Mount Athos is special in that Orthodox tradition.
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