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Intricate Opulence: The Nuns Making Bishops' Miters In North Macedonia

The Rajcica monastery complex sits in a bucolic part of North Macedonia, just a few kilometers from the border with Albania. Members of the religious community spend much of their time in prayer, but they are also devoted to a highly skilled craft: making elaborate bishops' hats, or miters, one of the symbols of the Orthodox Christian Church.

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