Nikos Theo

The Monastery of Panagia Katsimikadas (dedicated to the memory of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary) is located near the villages of “Taps & Mouriatada” municipality Trifylia Messinia, is an idyllic place with unique natural beauty that draws you to him like a magnet and you n to climb to worship the grace of the Virgin Mary. […]

Voulkanou Monastery, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary (August 15), is built on top of Mount Ithomi, where it was in antiquity the Sanctuary of Zeus Ithomata. The Monastery is built really on top of Ithome, on a huge rock, which gives the impression that is and foundations also. The old temple is aisled […]

The southernmost geographically monastery of the Holy Metropolis of Messinia, between villages Vasilitsi and Chrysokellaria, in  the Municipality of Koroni.  Chrysokellaria, built originally in the 17th century, destroyed by Ibrahim. The church is Basilica, built in 1864 and is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, but celebrates the Holy Trinity. Nunnery (1 nun, […]

The new Monastery of Philosophos, which was built in order to replace the earlier, Byzantine one, lies in the western part of the Lousios gorge and was founded at the middle of the 17th century. The catholicon (main church) is a cross-in-square domed church of the composite, four-column type, with plain facades and poor brickwork […]

HOLY MONASTERY OF SAINT KONSTANTINOS AND HELEN KALOGREON KALAMATAS   Where is Kalamata near the Holy Metropolitan Church of Ipapantis of Christ. What is Women communal monastery (40 nuns, Mother Superion Nun Vryaini). When celebrating/celebrated St. Constantine (May 21) and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14). Historical Data Founded to1796 by monk Gerasimos […]