{"id":40669,"date":"2024-02-19T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/patmos\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:35:21","slug":"patmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/patmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Patmos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Monastery of Apocalypse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The island was referred to by many of the ancient writers (Thoukyd\u00eddis, Str\u00e1vonas) as P\u00c1TNOS and, like N. L\u00e9ros, was protected by goddess \u00c1rtemis. There are remains of an ancient settlement with a citadel (4th century BC) in \u201cKast\u00e9lli\u201d. <\/p>\n\n

The island was used as a place of exile during the Roman rule<\/strong>, and one of the Disciples of Christ, Io\u00e1nnis, who wrote the \u201cApocalypse\u201d and the homonymous Gospel, was sentenced to exile here. The island became very famous during subsequent years because of the Evangelist\u2019s stay here but fell into obscurity later (10th century) because of the pirates that ravaged the whole of the Aegean. <\/p>\n\n

From the 11th century<\/strong> P\u00e1tmos began to recover, when the monk Christ\u00f3doulos from Nice founded the Monastery of \u00c1gios Io\u00e1nnis Theol\u00f3gos. The \u201cP\u00e1tmos School\u201d, into which there was an influx of youths from all around Greece, was established, as well as the Library of P\u00e1tmos, where great manuscripts were kept, many of which have since been stolen by the various plunderers (among those stolen is the \u201cK\u00f3dikas\u201d of Pl\u00e1tonas \u2013 the oldest known manuscript of Pl\u00e1tonas \u2013 now found in the library of Oxford, England). <\/p>\n\n

After the fall of Constantinople<\/strong> by the Turks, many from the sovereign town sought refuge on the island and other refugees mainly from Kr\u00edti later joined them. During the Venetian \u2013 Turkish War (mid 17th century), the island harboured a Venetian naval station. P\u00e1tmos was the birthplace of Emmanu\u00e9l X\u00e1nthos, who was one of the founders of the \u201cPhilik\u00ed Etaire\u00eda\u201d (the secret Greek organisation that prepared the way for the uprising of the nation against the Turks in 1821). <\/p>\n\n

P\u00e1tmos took an active part in the Greek Revolution<\/strong> offering both sailors and soldiers. The island did not succeed in its liberation and remained under Turkish rule to follow the fate of the rest of the Dodek\u00e1nisa, until it was finally reunited with Mother Greece in 1947.<\/p>\n\n

The castled Monastery of \u00c1gios Io\u00e1nnis<\/strong> dominates over the life of this sacred island and there are many religious sites (the Monasteries of Ag\u00eda Ag\u00edon, Evangelism\u00f3s, Panag\u00eda and Churches of Panag\u00eda Gavr\u00e1, Proph\u00edtis Il\u00edas, \u00c1gios Nik\u00f3laos etc).<\/p>\n\n

Flavours:<\/strong> You will find very nice \u201ctouloumot\u00fdri\u201d (white cheese kept in a goatskin) and \u201cmiz\u00fdthra\u201d (soft white cheese) as well as the tasty \u201cpoungi\u00e1\u201d (sweet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The island was referred to by many of the ancient writers (Thoukyd\u00eddis, Str\u00e1vonas) as P\u00c1TNOS and, like N. L\u00e9ros, was protected by goddess \u00c1rtemis. There are remains of an ancient settlement with a citadel (4th century BC) in \u201cKast\u00e9lli\u201d. The island was used as a place of exile during the Roman rule, and one of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[741,740],"tags":[452,882],"class_list":["post-40669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agathonisi-to-leros-islands","category-dodecanese","tag-history","tag-patmos","category-741","category-740","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40670,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40669\/revisions\/40670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}