{"id":9859,"date":"2012-01-04T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=9859"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:34:56","slug":"hard-time-convict-flees-monastery-asks-to-be-sent-back-to-prison-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/01\/hard-time-convict-flees-monastery-asks-to-be-sent-back-to-prison-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard time: convict flees monastery, asks to be sent back to prison instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Well, clearly, religious life isn\u2019t for everybody:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A convicted criminal who was serving out his sentence in a monastery has escaped for the second time and asked to be sent back to prison because life was too tough.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thief David Catalano, 31, was sent to a <\/span>Santa Maria degli Angeli community<\/span> run by Capuchin monks in Sicily last November.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he found their austere lifetstyle too tough to handle and soon escaped. After a short while on the run he was caught by police and sent back.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday he fled for the second time in six weeks, only to swiftly turn himself in at a police station and beg officers to send him back to jail in the nearby town of Nicosia.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told the stunned policemen: \u2018Prison is better than being at that hostel run by monks.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

A police spokesman said: \u2018Catalano arrived out of the blue and said there was no way he could stay on with the monks.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said it was too tough and he wanted to go back to prison, so we happily obliged and he is now back behind bars serving the rest of his sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Life with the monks can be pretty tough \u2013 there are no mod cons and they are up early and go to bed early. There are no luxuries at the hostel and the monks run a very austere regime.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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