The Holy Monastery of Agia Efimia is one of the oldest monasteries in Corfu, as it seems to have been founded in the 15th century. Tradition states that in the place where the monastery's catholicon is built today, there was an old church named after Agia Eufimia, in the ruins of which the icon of the Saint was miraculously found. In the year 1478, with a notary document, Antonios Mousoulis dedicated estates to the Monastery. The monastery functioned as a community. In the year 1619, the will of the Abbess at the time stipulated that the nuns should "live communally, and those who did not want to live communally should be ostracized from the monastery". The monastery had a respectable real estate in the suburbs of the city and in villages which, however, with the Turkish invasion of 1716 was affected and shrunk. The Monastery suffered many damages from time to time from raids. Many relics and documents were destroyed. Among the estates that belonged to the Monastery was a large part together with the church of Agios Panteleimonos within the Mon Repo. The Holy Monastery celebrates the memory of Saint Euphemia twice a year on July 11 and September 16.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou