A group of nuns were holed up in the Xenia monastery in the central Greek town of Volos after fleeing their convent when their knitting business failed, leaving a million-dollar debt. Ignoring pleas and protests to return to the fold from Archbishop Christodoulos, the order's mother superior said the nuns would be staying put, despite mounting pressure from a number of banks. Buzzle.com reports that her stance sparked a mini-crisis for the Greek Orthodox church, which, after convening bishops and other top clerics, described the incident as "a first" for the church.The order, whose 55 members have been described as a "feisty crowd", are believed to have run up the debt after splashing out on six industrial knitting machines to produce woollens that became highly popular with the local community around their convent, close to the Greek-Bulgarian border.
They apparently sold products to some 25 chains around Greece and store owners complained that the nuns had also run off with a substantial amount in pocketed deposits. Greece's holy synod says it is confronting one of its worst crises ever involving an order of nuns.
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