<p>Authorities have been searching for a 79-year-old monk who disappeared after he left his Rockdale County monastery saying he was going to visit relatives in Ohio.</p><p>The Rev. Damien Turk, who has Alzheimer's disease, left the Monastery of the Holy Spirit on Wednesday and took a bus to the Greyhound terminal in Atlanta, an investigator assisting the monastery said Friday.</p><p>The investigator, Harold Copus, said Turk was later seen wandering around downtown Atlanta, and his only relative in Ohio had not seen him.</p><p>Turk was described as 5-foot-9, 180 pounds with white hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a gray short-sleeved shirt and brown trousers.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x286816c)</p>
