Cyprus: Government intervention for the “sinner” monastery

Rhagdaean are the developments following the revelations about the church scandal involving the Monastery of Osios Habakkuk in Fterikoudi. At the order of the Minister of Justice, criminal investigators were appointed by the Legal Service to investigate any criminal offences committed by any person in the case of the Holy Monastery of Osios Habakkuk. According to an announcement, the two criminal investigators will cooperate with the Police Interrogators and investigate the allegations that “are made by the persons involved, including allegations of involvement of police and other persons”. The last revelation is a video of the supposedly miraculous cross in the Monastery of Cyprus. Monks are deceived while the camera is recording. The video was released by the newspaper “Citizen”. The images of shame are from 28 December 2023, when the Prior of the Monastery of Osios Habakkum Nektarios was chatting with nuns who arrived at the monastery to buy Christmas dishes. He is recorded presenting to nuns the box with St. Porphyri’s Cross saying that inside he placed cotton so that the myrrh would not run out. The abbot told nuns that the myrrh runs on the heads of the faithful and for this cross it is placed in a box. It is the same box, that In fact, to deliver to nuns cotton with the myrrh from the cross, the old Nektarios set as a condition not to mention the miracle to others. “I don’t want to do shows” were Nektario’s words. Friend of monks Manos Drakakis, who is also a lawyer spoke to LIVE NEWS. “I hear reports and there’s a mess about his behavior. We’ve all prejudged and concluded. This particular myrrh video could be editing. I cannot know how many miracles have been done in this monastery.”