For more than three hundred years, the immense and beautiful cave on the island of Antiparos has attracted curious adventurers, but on Christmas, 1673, it served as the site of an unusual celebration. His Excellency, the French Ambassador to Turkey, the Marquis de Nointel, accompanied by an entourage that numbered more than five hundred, made the perilous descent into the forbidding grotto to celebrate the Nativity. There they remained for the three days of Christmas…
There was a time when people turned with their troubles to gods and goddesses, demi-gods and heroes, saints and angels, but today more and more enlightened non-believers turn to physicians and psychiatrists for help.
The Feast of St. Marina will be celebrated once again on July 17 with a fair or panigiri atthe Church ofAgia Marina on the eastern slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, opposite the Acropolis, just below the Observatory.
Thousands of tourists visit Greece every year to follow in the footsteps of St. Paul. The Apostle, starting from Antioch, gradually covered the whole territory of Asia Minor and Greece—then part of the Roman Empire—as his mission field.
