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AGIA MARKELLA (Beach) CHIOS
About eight (8) kilometers from Volissos
is built, near the sea, the monastery of Agia Markella, protectress of Chios Island.
The beach is sandy and pebbled and it's main characteristic is the very cold water
and the deep bottom of the sea. At the end of the coast there is a path, which
leads to the place where Agia Markella died a martyr. From this point hot water
is welled out from the earth.
22 of July is the date that Chian people, we celebrate the name -day
of Saint Markella and many people from all over Greece come to the Island just
to be in the monastery this saint day to pray and thank the Saint for the good
she made to them and their families. Very often, the natives say stories about
the miracles that Agia Markella had done when she was a young woman.
This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Chios Prefecture Tourism Committee URL below, which contains images.
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