History, memory and myth in Greece.
The local festival dedicated to the Anniversary of the Vision of Agia (saint) or Osia (venerable, blessed saint) Pelagia is celebrated on the Greek island of Tinos, and is dedicated to one of the most recent Orthodox saints, Agia Pelagia, a nun who was sanctified in 1970. After the Greek War of Inde...
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