Word: christodulus
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...John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery on the site was built there by St. Christodulus in the 11th Century. The Dodecanesian Society in Athens last week insisted that Italian carabinieri had seized this monastery, possibly with a view to turning it over to the Church of Rome...
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