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The chapel
is located near the village of Zemata in the area of Thanos (about 4 km from Myrina).
Remnant of one of the numerous monasteries on the island, it is known from 1305,
a year in which it become part of the monastery of Agia Lavra, when some monks
from the island of Ag. Eustratios who belonged to the monastery settled in the
chapel in order to protect themselves from the Turkish raids. It is located at
a spectacular position in a hardly-reached cave, on the top of a hill among impressive
rocks, a location in which in Byzantine years there was probably an Early-Christian
church and hermits.
On the first Tuesday after Easter there is a service at the chapel.
On that day the icon of the Virgin (Panagia) Kakaviotissa -which for the rest
of the year is kept by a family at Kontia- is brought at the chapel. According
to tradition, the members of this family are the descendants of a laborer to whom
the last monk gave the icon in question.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
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