The ecclesiastical museum of Panormitis Monastery the visitor will admire the rich collection of ecclesiastical relics of the monastery.
Numerous liturgical manuscripts with colorful artistic decoration, portable icons, precious sacred vessels, gold-embroidered vestments, silver buckles and a multitude of valuable votives are kept and displayed in the museum.
Noteworthy is a large gold-embroidered epitaph crafted in Russia in 1852 on full purple velvet. This is the cover that is placed on the Epitaphios after the Removal.
The body of Christ in relief dominates in the center, where it is flanked by the Virgin Mary, Angels and Myrobearers.
The epitaph is framed by the well-known epitaph: "The Blessed Joseph..." which is also embroidered in gold.
The extraordinary art heirloom was a gift from the Russian consul in Constantinople, Zacharias Zakharov, to the then Abbot Ierotheos Fotiadis, who served as his son's teacher for some time while he was there.
In the first room of the same museum, you will be attracted by the unique sight of a multitude of small boats, of various sizes, most of which, as the monks say, arrive by themselves from the sea at the bay of the Monastery, as offerings and reverent supplications to the Archangel.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
