Saint Raphael who, after repeated appearances in the dreams of a believer, revealed to him the story of his martyrdom and thus "revealed" the hidden history of the Monastery of Karyonas, located among the olive groves of Thermi. His bones were found in the place he indicated, as well as the bones of
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The icon of the Virgin Mary holding Christ (Brefokratousa), was created by the Evangelist Luke with mastic and wax and was transferred from Jerusalem to Agiaso by the monk Agathon from Ephesus, in 803 AD. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
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The figure of Archangel Michael in his relief image appears shaded. Tradition preserved the history of the monastery, which was sacked by Saracen pirates towards the end of the first millennium. All the monks were slaughtered except the novice monk Gabriel, who escaped thanks to a miracle of the
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