Word: panayia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scialoja and his group talked loudly about their plans to visit the Panayia Khoroviotissa, a monastery which gave them their only excuse for visiting the island. On the route to the monastery, they hid a walkie-talkie for Mylonas and returned to their boat. That night -after the quick trip back to shore in the rubber dinghy-they sailed away with their extra passenger...
Blessed Monk. Esthete Makarios comes of earthy origins. He was born Michael Mouskos in 1913 in the coastal village of Panayia. His father, a typical gnarled and baggy-trousered peasant, recalls that he was a "bad goatherd," and thought him rather stupid. Not so the abbot of Kykko monastery, who was attracted by young Michael's intelligence when the boy became a novice at the age of 13; he later took the name Makarios, which means "blessed." By entering Kykko, which was founded eight centuries ago high in the Troodos Mountains, and is today the wealthiest monastery in Cyprus...
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