Recipe – Fanouropita – Greek Lost and Found Cake
Until I watched Katerina (Not only a top chef, owner of the popular Maistrali Taverna Loutraki but also a mine of information) make this symbolic cake I had no idea about the wonderful story...
Category: Greek Saints
Archangels and Fallen Angels
In Heaven as on Earth things didn’t inevitably run smoothly. There’s invariably that one entity who considers himself superior to others, so it was with Lucifer. Lucifer was originally created by God as...
Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki Greece
Saint Demetrius, patron Saint of Thessaloniki, was a Christian martyr born into an aristocratic family of the Roman province of Macedonia in 270 AD. He is one of the most popular saints of...
Assumption Day Greece Dekapenteavgoustos 15 August
15 August, Assumption Day, Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, in Greek: “Dekapentavgoustos” and “Koimmisis Tis Theotokou”, is the third most important religious celebration in Greece,...
Saint John The Baptist – John the Forerunner
Saint John the Baptist’s main Feast Day, celebrated by The Greek Orthodox Church, is “The Synaxis of Saint John the Forerunner”, on the seventh of January. Saint John the Baptist, who was...
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
On 25 November, The Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, referred to in Greece as; The Great Martyr Saint Catherine – Ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνα ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς...
Epiphany in Greece – Theophania – Ton Foton – 6 January
It’s the sixth of January and Christmas has officially come to an end and it is Epiphany; called “Ton Foton” in Greece: “The Festival of Lights” This Feast Day is known as...
Saint Nicholas of Myra – Santa Claus?
How did the good and generous Christian Saint, the good Bishop Nicholas, become the Christmas Santa Claus all dressed up in a Father Christmas outfit? Read on and I shall tell you the...
The Life and Death of Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew’s day is celebrated worldwide on the thirtieth of November. Andrew; the Patron Saint of Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Scotland, was a fisherman and brother of Saint Peter, the first...
Monastery of Osios Patapios of Thebes – Loutraki Greece
Saint Patapios of Thebes – Feast Day 8 December Saint Patapios, was born in 380 AD, in the Egyptian city of Thebes, Egypt, of wealthy, Christian parents. Through his studies, which included...
