Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Religious figures biography for wider area of: "LESVOS Island NORTH AEGEAN" .
MYTILINI (Town) LESVOS
Magentenus, a commentator on Aristotle, flourished during the first half of the fourteenth century. He was a monk, and afterwards archbishop of Mitylene. Several of his commentaries on Aristotle are extant, and have been published
STYPSI (Village) LESVOS
1866 - 1953
The Bishop Karavagelis (1866-1935) was born in Stypsi. A number of
years,served as a bishop in the City of Kastoria
north of Greece. His Heroic effort to voluntarily govern the Greek villages of
the north,when they were still under Turkish occupation,and when the gorilla like
Bulgarian gangs,used to kill the Greek teachers and priests, and replacing them
with their own, changing the Greeks in to Bulgarians. He arranged this time Greek
Gangs, against the Bulgarians, and with a great effort and determination, he managed
to keep the Greek Borders as they are today.
THE MACEDONIAN WAR
The region of Kastoria constituted the center of preparation and action
of the armed liberating Macedonian War. In that region the resistance against
the Bulgarians is organized and important historic personalities appear, such
as Pavlos Melas, Germanos Karavagelis and Ion Dragoumis, who, with their robust
attitude, led the War to the liberation of the region in 11 November 1912.
This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Municipality of Petra URL below, which contains images.
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Sts Raphael, Nicholas and Irene suffered martyrdom by the Turks on
the island of Lesvos (also called Mytilene) on April 9 1463 AD, after the fall
of Constantinople. St Raphael was the Abbot of Karyes near the village of Thermi
on the island. St Nicholas was a Deacon at the monastery, and St Irene was the
12-year-old daughter of the major of Thermi. The three saints were at the monastery
with the village teacher and St Irene?s father when the Turks raided it.
These saints were unknown for about 500 years after their martyrdoms
during the Turkish occupation of Lesvos. In 1959 the three saints appeared to
the people on Lesvos in dreams and visions. They guided excavations of their own
graves, called people to repentance, and cured many kinds of diseases. The saints
revealed how they were cruelly tortured at the monastery, calling it a "second
Golgotha" (in the words of St Raphael). St Raphael?s torture ended when his head
was sawn off. St Nicholas died of heart failure when he was being tortured. St
Irene was tortured in front of her father and burnt alive in a clay cask, where
her charred bones were later found. The teacher?s head was cut off and placed
between his legs when he was buried. A great deal of blood was shed at the monastery;
the saints were martyred for the sake of their Christian faith and Fatherland.
Found amongst these excavation was St Raphael?s round metallic Enkopion with a
low relief of Christ Pantocrator on it. Orthodox Bishops wear Enkopions externally
on the breast.
Details of the lives of these saints, and miraculous cures and visions
can be found in a book by Constantine Cavarnos titled "Saints Raphael, Nicholas
and Irene of Lesvos", Modern Orthodox Saints, vol 10. Published in 1994 (second
printing) by the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 111 Gilbert
Road Belmont, Massachusetts 02178 USA.
Nun and hermitess. According to tradition, she lived on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea before being kidnapped by Arab raiders. They took her to the island of Paros where she escaped and lived thereafter for thirty years as a herrmitess. Discovered one day by a hunter named Simon, she begged him to return when he could with Holy Communion, a plea he fulfilled a year later after which she soon died. It is thought by scholars that the tale of the Holy Communion was based on the similar event in the life of St. Mary of Egypt.
MYTILINI (Town) LESVOS
Georgius Mytilenaeus, or of Mytilene. He is the author of a homily In Salutiferam
D. N. Jesu Christi Passioneem, published by Gretser, De Cruce, vol. ii. A work
on the same subject, extant in MS. and described as by Georgins Methiminensis,
or Methinensis (of Methymna ?), has been conjectured to be the same work, but
the conjecture does not appear to be well founded. A George, Metropolitan of Mytilene,
probably the same with the subject of the present article, is the author of two
works extant in MIS., Davidis et Symeonis Confessorun et Martyrum Officium and
Eorundem Vita ac Historia. Some epigrams in praise of the writings of Dionysius
Areopagita, by Georgius Patricius, a native of Mytilene, are said by the Jesuit
Delrio (Vindiciae Areopagit. c. xxi.) to have been printed, but he does not say
where; but whether the author is the subject of the present article is by no means
clear. (Allatius, Ibid.; Fabric, Bibl. Gr. vol. xi.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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