Irene Vassos
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    • Roumeli
    • Thessaloniki
    • -----My Solo Walk
    • -----Thessaloniki Churches
    • -----Byzantine Museum
  • Thessaly South
    • Thessaly South
    • ------Agios Demetrios
    • -----Towards Elassona
    • -----Monastery of Panageia Olympiotissa
    • -----Kalampaka the Town
    • -----Kalampaka Church of the Dormition of the Virgin
    • Meteora Overview
    • ------Monastery of Agios Stephanos [Old Katholikon]
    • ------Monastery of Agios Stephanos [New Katholikon]
    • ------Monastery of Roussanou
    • Pefkis Icon Studio - Trikala
    • Distomo: Hosios Loukas
  • Ionia | Kefalonia
    • Ionia | Kefalonia
    • The Port of Kylini
    • Kefalonia: Monastery of St. Gerasimos
    • The "Lost" Archbishop of Kefalonia
    • The Robola Winery
    • Monastery of St. Andrew and Ecclesiastical Museum
  • Peleponnese
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    • Mystras: Gates, Towers, Arches and Paths
    • Mystras Churches
    • Arkadia: Ardamis Restaurant
  • Aegean
    • Aegean
    • Island of Aegina
    • Monastery of St. Nektarios
    • Athens the City
    • Athens the Byzantine and Christian Museum
    • Athens the Acropolis and its Museum
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Monastery and Church of St. Nektarios

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​​Their is no saint more beloved in Greece and other places in the world than St. Nektarios (1846-1920). He was born in Selymbria, Thrace close to what was then Constantinople and moved there at a young man. At the age of 30 he moved to the island of Chios, taught school and become a monk. There are many accounts of the life of St. Nektarios (e.g. among many sites, the Sandopolis blog has a good biography).

His life's work took place on the island of Aegina, where he founded a monastery (convent) and spent the great part of his life instructing the nuns, performing miracles and wishing for the solitude of a monastic, which eluded him because of his magnetism. His Troparion is a concise biography of his life as a holy monk:
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Images from the Monastery and Cathedral of St. Nektarios