it got dug out of archives, which was a useless lake. the monks got the lake valued at some astronomical price, like a billion euros or something then persuaded the government to swap the lake for land of equal value owned by the government, including things like a former alimb pick training center. they were incredibly savvy, shrewd monks. they were billionaires by the time i got there, if they would have been allowed to keep their land. that s what is known as the vato petty scandal what triggered the greek crisis. when word of the monks doings spread, it caused the government to fall. and when the government fell, the new government came in and exposed how rotten the financial books were.