Patmos

Greece 2013
P001a Patmos, a tiny Greek island in the Aegean Sea, with lace-like coastline, sheer cliffs and volcanic soil; the main communities are Chora and Skala...
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P001d ... Patmos is reputed to be where St John the Theologian wrote both his Gospel and the Apocalypse...
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P001e Monastery of St. John the Divine (Monastery of Saint John the Theologian) was built as a castle in 1088 by the monk Christodoulos Latrinós following a grant by...
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P002j ... now surrounded by the main village, the fortified Monastery of St. John, which walls are more than 50 feet high, was built with local gray stone...
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P003 Holy Grotto of the Apocalypse... as it is well known throughout Christianity, St. John was exiled in Patmos where he wrote The Apocalypse (Revelation) in a cave...
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P003c ... according to Christian legend, three fissures (a symbol of the Holy Trinity) opened in a wall in the cave, and St. John heard the voice of God, who granted...
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P003g .... the voice commanded the saint to transcribe these visions... St. John dictated the revelations to one of his disciples Prochoros and this text became the...
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P003k ... entrance to the grotto is marked with a mosaic of the visions of the saint...
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P004 ... no photography allowed inside the cave... the nightly resting place of the saint’s head is fenced off and delineated in beaten silver...
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P006 .. during his time in this sacred cave, St. John also composed the Fourth Gospel....
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P006a ... the Apocalypse is considered the most difficult semantically book of the New Testament. Its main idea is the Second Coming of Christ as a fair Judge and the...
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P008 The Holy Grotto of Revelation or Holy Cave of Apocalypse, mid-way from the harbor of Skala up to the hill-top town of Chora... it was said that a donkey track...
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P016 Chora, capital and main village of Patmos, spilling under the walls of the Monastery of St. John like roots of a tree... the Town Hall...
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P019 ... an architecturally homogeneous village; the whitewashed houses, mansions built by weathy ship owners, captain's residences, narrow streets and cobblestone...
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P023 ... the Byzantine residences are unique to the island and said to be the strongest built in the Aegean...
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P023a ... traditional settlement was built around the imposing Monastery of St John during the 12th century... according to some old sayings, Patmos was ounce called...
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P023b ... another myth was that the island took its name because of Neptune when he stepped on it (step: patima), thus the island was first called Patnos and later...
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P025 ... flourished between the 16th and 17th century during which beautiful mansions and captain residences were built by wealthy families ...
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P026 ... the unique Dodecanese village of Chora is one of the most expensive areas in Europe; bought out mainly by foreigners, these whitewashed houses and mansions...
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P027 ... a quiet thoroughfare in Chora...
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