Monk nabbed at airport trying to smuggle dead nun’s skeleton out of Greece

19/1/2011 BY Philip Caulfield DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Church of Cyprus A monk and two accomplices were busted Sunday trying to board a plane in Athens with the skull and bones of a dead nun in their luggage. When questioned about why he had a skull and skeletal remains wrapped in cloth in his suitcase, the 42-year-old monk, who is from Cyprus, told police that he was transferring the remains from Greece to a monastery in Cyprus because the nun was a saint. The Cypriot Orthodox church, though, showed little faith in the monk’s story, saying the attempted smuggling was sacrilegious