Discover the lives and contributions of the great personalities who marked the Holy Metropolis of Syros through our digital portraits. These portraits offer a vivid and thorough depiction of their lives, bringing you closer to their history and work. Each portrait is accompanied by detailed information, images, and descriptions, providing a comprehensive view of their spiritual and social contributions.

Saint Pelagia - Tinos

Saint Pelagia - Tinos

Saint Pelagia, daughter of the priest Nikiforos, hailed from Tinos (1752-1834) and lived a pious life from her childhood. Her secular name was Loukia, but when she entered the monastic stage at the age of 15 in Kechrovouni of Tinos, she adopted the name of her divine monastic figure, Pelagia. The Virgin Mary appeared to her in visions and indicated the location where the Icon of Panagia Megalochari of Tinos was buried.

Saint Methodia - Kimolos

Saint Methodia - Kimolos

During the last two centuries, the Cyclades gave birth to four Orthodox Saints, among whom two lived and were sanctified in the islands of the Metropolis of Syros: Saint Nikodemos the Athonite from Naxos, Saint Arsenios from Paros - who also lived in Folegandros, Saint Pelagia from Tinos, and Saint Methodia from Kimolos, who is lesser-known to many.

Saint Ignatius of Mariupol, the Kythnian.

Saint Ignatius of Mariupol, the Kythnian.

 

Saint Ignatius, the founder of the martyr city of Mariupol, was simultaneously the founder of the first small, albeit free, Greek state since 1453. Through the decree of March 24, 1780, by Empress Catherine II, the territory of Mariupol was established, encompassing the city itself and the Greek villages surrounding it.

Christopher Papoulakos - Monk at the Panachrantos Monastery in Andros

Christopher Papoulakos - Monk at the Panachrantos Monastery in Andros

Monk Christopher Papoulakos was a personality who profoundly influenced those who encountered him, mainly through his urging and interventions but especially through his impassioned preaching. He lived and acted during the reign of Otto, a time when the Greek state sought to organize itself following the models of Western European states. Papoulakos, through his life and struggles, expressed the Orthodox Greek's reaction against the distortions caused by the secular spirit that had started to penetrate people's souls, eroding the ancestral values of our troubled nation. He was one of the figures who fought to rescue humanity from the new Western-oriented lifestyle, preaching not only the word of God but also the word of man.

Saint Neomartyr Manuel of Crete - Mykonos

Saint Neomartyr Manuel of Crete - Mykonos

Saint Manuel was a neomartyr originating from Sfakia, Crete. He spent most of his life in Mykonos, where he started a family. Refusing to change his faith, he was beheaded by the Turks in the year 1792

Manto Mavrogenous - Mykonos

Manto Mavrogenous - Mykonos

 

Manto Mavrogenous was a distinctive figure in the struggles of the Nation for national Freedom and Independence, a fighter and warrior. Fearless combatant, a wonderful person, with rare spiritual and mental gifts.

Agios Nektarios – Aegina – Passage through Syros

Agios Nektarios – Aegina – Passage through Syros

Saint Nektarios, also known as Nektarios of Pentapolis or Nektarios of Aegina, born Anastasios Kefalas, was a Greek. He was born on October 1, 1846, in Silivria, Eastern Thrace, and died of cancer at the Aretaieio Hospital on November 9, 1920. His entire life reflects the incredible challenges, psychological, spiritual, and physical pressures that we, ordinary people, face on a daily basis.

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