Byzantine & Christian Monuments

Loutraki

	Saint John The Baptist
	Our Lady Yatrissa
	Agios Fanourios
	St. Andrew
	Christ's Resurrection
	St George
	Monastery of St Marina
	Nunnery of the Holy Trinity
	Our Lady "tou Prathi"

On the Road to Perachora

	St Paraskeve
	Monastery of John the Baptist
	Monastery of St Gerasimos & St Panteleimon
	Monastery of the Prophet Elijah
	Monastery of St Paul
	Nunnery of Hosios Patapios

Perachora

	The Holy Church of the Assumption
	St Demetrius
	Cruch of the Greate Archangels
	St Blaise
	Our Lady 'Zoodochos Pigi'
	The Prophet Elijah
	Crhurch of the Seven Maccabees
	Monastery of St Nicholas 'the Younger'
	St Nicholas at the Heraion
	Our Lady 'Ipapanti'
	St George

Pisia

	St Athanasius
	St Paraskeve
	St George

SCHINOS  (ancient oenoe)

	Kalanisa
	The Transfiguration
	St Blaise

Nunnery  of
Hosios Patapios

At a distance of 14 km from Loutraki, along the road to Perachora, on an imposing site and at an altitude of some 700 m., on a spur of the Geraneia mountains and above the calm waters of the Gulf of Corinth, stands the nunnery of Hosios Patapios.  The interior of the nunnery is reached by a spiral flight of 144 steps; amid the pine-trees on the right, stands the chapel of the Hosia Mary of Egypt.

The nunnery was built in 1952 by Prokopios, Metropolitan Bishop of Corinth, and dedicated to Hosios ('the Blessed') Patapios. Patapios was born in the fourth or fifth century at Thebes in Egypt and spent much of his life as an ascetic in the desert. Later, he visited Vlachernae in Constantinople, where he dedicated himself utterly to God, work for many miracles and help to his fellow men. He died at a great age and was buried in the church of St John the Baptist in Constantinople. From there, his relic was brought to the Geraneia mountains by other ascetics and sealed in a cave.

In 1904, the relic came to light when the cave was opened. The saint's body had been placed beneath tiles, to protect it from the damp, and it exuded a sweet odour. On the relic was a scroll giving Patapios's name, with a wooden cross and some Byzantine coins. The cave of Hosios Patapios, measuring 8 χ 4.5 meters, is to the northwest of the catholicon of the nunnery, and it has a sanctuary and sacristy hewn out of the rock. The holy relic itself is in a special wooden structure at the back of the cave, on the left.

Inside the cave there are also Byzantine wall paintings of the thirteenth century, notably three full-length figures: those of Hosios Patapios, St Hypomone (the name means 'Patience'), and Hosios Nicon. There are also excellent wall paintings in the modern church of the Dormition of Our Lady. Some forty nuns now live in the cells of the foundation.