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Outside a small Macedonian village, a lone Catholic nun keeps a quiet watch over
a silent
convent. She is the last caretaker of this site of significant historical
developments,
spanning more than 2,000 years. When Sister Maria Cyrilla of the Order of the
Perpetual
Watch dies, the convent of St. Elias will be closed by the Eastern Orthodox
Patriarch of
Macedonia.
However, that isn't likely to happen soon, as Sister Maria, 53, enjoys excellent
health. By
her own estimate, she walks 10 miles daily about the grounds of the convent,
which once
served as a base for the army of Attila the Hun. In more ancient times, a Greek
temple to
Eros, the god of love, occupied the hilltop site.
Historians say that Attila took over the old temple in 439 A.D., and used it as
a base for
his marauding army. The Huns are believed to have first collected and then
destroyed a
large gathering of Greek legal writs at the site. It is believed that Attila
wanted to study
the Greek legal system and had the writs and other documents brought to the
temple.
Scholars differ on why he had the valuable documents destroyed; because he was
barely
literate and couldn't read them; or because they provided evidence of a
democratic
government that did not square with his own notion of “rule by an all-powerful
tyrant”.
When the Greek Church took over the site in the 15th century and the convent was
built,
church leaders ordered the pagan statue of Eros destroyed, causing yet another
ancient
Greek treasure to be lost. Today, there is only the lone sister, watching over
the old Hun
base. When she goes, that will be it.
Thus, that's how it ends, with No Huns, No Writs, No Eros, and Nun on base.

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