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Nuns on the run

Fifty-five nuns were on the run last night after racking up debts of £400,000. The women – all called Maria – had secretly been running a knitwear company on the side for ten years. Their convent supplied 25 shops and they spent a fortune travelling to fashion shows across Europe to keep up with trends, reports the Sun.

But the order of St Kyrikos and Ioulite in Northern Greece hit a cashflow crisis after spending huge sums on new machinery. Their expensive knitting machines were put on a lorry and the sisters disappeared a few days later, with thousands of pounds in deposits from local shop owners.

We feel that (until they absconded with other people’s money) the nuns displayed impressive entrepreneurial spirit, as they also ran a candle-making and icon-painting business in addition to their lucrative knitwear endeavour.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .