Churches & monasteries · Thermi (east Lesbos)

Monastery of Saints Raphael, Nikolaos and Irene

Photo: Aleksei m · CC BY-SA 4.0

A convent about 3 km from Loutropoli Thermis, on the site of a 12th-century foundation destroyed by pirates in 1235 and converted into a male monastery in 1463 by Raphael and Nikolaos, who with the twelve-year-old Irene were killed during Ottoman rule. It was completely rebuilt in 1964 by Abbess Evgenia Kleidara and now holds the relics of the three neomartyrs; the feast on 9 April draws pilgrims from across the Orthodox world.

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All year round

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