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St John is often shown in Greek art wearing goat-skin breeches, like the pre-Christian god Pan.
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St John wrote the Book of Revelations on Patmos, but he is also venerated on Crete.
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Ten Cretan martyrs killed for their faith by the Romans have their church near Gortys.
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St Eustacius is especially popular in southwest Crete, where many chapels and children bear his name.
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The patron saint of shepherds is greatly esteemed and, as a warrior saint, is doubly popular.
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The commander of the heavenly host is especially revered by combative Cretans.
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The patron saint of seafarers and fishermen is honoured all around the coast of Crete.
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The chapel of Agios Pavlos stands where the saint was swept ashore between Agia Roumeli and Loutro.
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This follower of St Paul was given the task of bringing Christianity to the Cretans.
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A patriotic three-day gathering to commemorate the freedom fighters of the 1866 uprising and the defenders of Moni Arkadiou, who blew themselves up rather than surrender to the Turks.
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