The last of the summer saints (4

The last post on saints, till next time.
Hooray, you say

A summary of summer saints and a parade of  Poros churches 

Agios - male saint                    Eklisia - church
Agia   - female                          Papas   - priest
Agioi  - plural                            

5     June   Agia Triada  (Holy Trinity)  Note the all-seeing eye painted over the doorway.  Fiesta is 7 weeks after Easter.

24  June   St John the Baptist
 Burning of the May Day Wreath.  Jumping the bonfire.   Somewhere around here mid-summer is celebrated, summer solstice. 

One of the oldest churches on the island

29 June     Peter and Paul 
30 June     Apostolos

1  July      Agioi Anargyroi  - a huge 'panigyri' (festival) at the Monastery dedicated to these two saints, Kosmas and Damianos, down the road outside the town of Ermioni.

1 July      little church at Brysoula (the spring) which is dedicated to the Holy Belt of the Virgin Mary

7 July    Agia Kyriaki on the island of Angystri.  The road outside the church is strewn with branches of sweet smelling myrtle

17  July Agia Marina.  Saint who looks after small children. Below our old house. My sis-in-law helps look after the church

20  July   Profit Elijah (Elios in Greek)  His churches are found on hilltops close to the sun.  Sounds like the Sun God Helios!  In a grove of pines on the top of a hill.  We used to take our children for picnics here and later as scouts they camped under the pines.  It is an idyllic and peaceful setting.

25 July   Agia Anna    This is a little church across the sea on Galatas with two cypress trees growing  over it like two lovers.  The church is looked after by my daughter's inlaws

26  July   Ag Paraskevi

27 July   Agios Panteleimon 


6   August       Agios Sotiros

15 August       Virgin Mary.  One of the churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her many forms

23  August        Another of the fiestas of the Virgin Mary.  The fiesta day of the little church on Daskalio Island at the entrance to Poros harbour 

                                                                                 

26  August       Agios Adrianos and Agia Natalia

27  August       Agios Fanourios - the finder of lost things



29  August  Agios Yianni tou Fava (St John of the Split Pea) .  Why split pea? Probably just a local tradition to eat yellow split peas (pease pudding) on this day

30  August   Agios Alexandros

These are just a few of the numerous chapels on the island, all cleaned, painted and used for a service at least once a year on the day of the fiesta  of the saint to which they are dedicated.

And that's the end of the local saints (only the local saints) for June, July and August. Of course there are lots more in September, October, November and December and..........