Location information

Klidon

AGIA MARINA (Small town) LEROS
24/6/2003

Klidonas

LIPSI (Island) DODEKANISSOS
24/6
Feast of St. John.

Easter

LEROS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
During the Easter week, the Lerian house is a 'work factory' of preparation for the Greek housewife. Biscuits, cakes, cheese pies, hardboiled eggs coloured with the traditional red dye - all prepared for the great day of Saturday and Sunday, the Resurrection Day. This feasting is the culmination of the holy week of fasting. During the Easter week the children of the Island go to the countryside collecting lavender to spread over the streets of the main square of Platanos where the four parishes of the city gather on Good Friday night to carry the Epitaph (the Arch carrying the icon of Jesus) through the surrounding neighbourhoods. The next morning, the Lerian people celebrate the first resurrection and take their first communion after fasting. The main celebration comes at midnight when the whole island congregates at the churches to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, letting off firecrackers and burning the effigy of Judas. At the end of the religious service, people enter the churches to light their candles from the candle of the priest (the holy light) and bring it home where the family table is laid with all the traditional Easter food. Easter Sunday is the big celebration day all over Greece, feasting continues with families roasting whole lambs on spits out-of-doors.

Leros Business Association WebPage
• http://www.lerosisland.com/culture.html

Boulafentia

LEROS (Port) DODEKANISSOS
1/8 - 15/8
Feast in honour of the Lerian heart surgeon Boulafentis.

St. Kyriaki

AGIA KYRIAKI (Isolated island) LEROS
7/7
In the church of the island.

St. Marina

AGIA MARINA (Small town) LEROS
17/7/2003

Panagia Poulariane

ANALIPSI (Port) ASTYPALEA
8/9/2002

St. Demetrios

26/10/2002

Panagia Galatiani (the Virgin Mary)

ARGINONDA (Settlement) KALYMNOS
15/8/2004

Panagia Portaitissa Feast

ASTYPALEA (Port) DODEKANISSOS
15/8

The Assumption of Maria

LEROS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
15/8

Leros Business Association WebPage
• http://www.lerosisland.com/culture.html

Virgin of Charos

LIPSI (Island) DODEKANISSOS
23/8
3days feast

St. Panteleimon

LIVADIA (Settlement) ASTYPALEA
27/7/2002

Panagia Kyra Psili

METOCHI (Settlement) KALYMNOS
15/8
At the Monastery of the Panagia Kyra Psili.

St. Panteleimon

PANORMOS (Village) KALYMNOS
27/7
At the homonymous monastery.

Panagia Castrou (the Virgin Mary)

PLATANOS (City quarter) LEROS
15/8

Panagia of Thomas

VATHY (Port) ASTYPALEA
8/9/2002

Feast of the distroyer Queen Olga

LEROS (Port) DODEKANISSOS
26/9

Alonaria

ALINDA (Village) LEROS
At the end of July.

Wine's Feast

LIPSI (Island) DODEKANISSOS
Three days' feast at the end of August.