Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Panagia)

MUNICIPALITY OF THASSOS

Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Panagia)

Tradition holds that the Virgin herself, in the form of a woman dressed in black with a halo, appeared to a young local shepherd and indicated to him that a new church should be built at the spot where the lost miracle-working icon would again be found. In a bush close to where myrrh grew, the icon was found as well as the miracle-working spring with holy water. The inhabitants therefore built a small chapel there initially, in which they placed the icon of the Virgin next to the source of the fountain. It is a male monastery and celebrates on 15 August.

Built in a landscape with wild olive trees and pines, the monastery inspires devotion and exultation in the visitor.

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Address

Maries, 64002 Thassos

Distance from Limenas: 20 km

Telephone

+30 25930 51394

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