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The Hero Monk Who Saves Ancient Manuscripts From ISIS

WORDS Posted: February 28, 2017 8:04 am

The “badass librarians of Timbuktu” aren’t the only ones rescuing irreplaceable old documents from violent destruction. “Soft-spoken, dressed in flowing black robes, [Father Columba Stewart] has spent the past 13 years roaming from the Balkans to the Middle East in an effort to save Christian and Islamic manuscripts threatened by wars, theft, weather – and, lately, the Islamic State.”

WORDS Published: 02.23.17

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.23.17

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