A day after an Armenian monk was shot, apparently by an Israeli sniper, priests living inside said they were well aware of the danger.

Armenian monks in the Armenian Monastery have kept their gates closed and had no contact with the Palestinians.

An Armenian monk was also injured.

A total of 8 Palestinians had been killed, and an Armenian monk was also wounded.

He was an Armenian monk, poet, mystical philosopher and theologian, born into a family of writers.

Mantle worn by Armenian monks (Church of St. James in Jerusalem)

In the 4th or 5th century(sic) Armenian monks founded a monastery there (up to eight monasteries were founded later).

Abandoned in the sixteenth century, in 1717 it was given by the ruling council of Venice to a group of Armenian monks.

The monastery served as a host for Armenian monks in the 11th and the 12th centuries.

Armenian monks follow much the same monastic tradition as the Coptics and Byzantines, but are much stricter in the matter of fasting.