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The hermitage of saint George
Avlakiou
The
hermitage seat is found in the street to the Meadow of Kalogiron.
It
sanctily belongs in the Abbey of Patmos and supervised under the holy monk
Cyrille Pentes of the altar of the church that is dedicated to Saint George
and Saint Mattheos. There is a picture of the Virgin Mary that is called the
Virgin Mary maheromeni (crucifixion). According to the delivery of this
picture, they had seized pirates, perhaps from beach of what was then Greece
Asia Minor and above it they raised tobacco. The Virgin Mary then left. The
waves of the sea took him very far and he was later found by fishermen, which
then he was given to the elders that season who had been in the Meadow of
Kalogiron. It was then said that he was given to the church of Saint George
of Avlakiou that can still be found there today.
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