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Crete : Top 10 Saints

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1. Agios Titos (St Titus)

This follower of St Paul was given the task of bringing Christianity to the Cretans.
2. Agios Nikolaos (St Nicholas)

The patron saint of seafarers and fishermen is honoured all around the coast of Crete.
3. Agios Pavlos (St Paul)

The chapel of Agios Pavlos stands where the saint was swept ashore between Agia Roumeli and Loutro.
4. Agios Michalis (St Michael)

The commander of the heavenly host is especially revered by combative Cretans.
5. Agios Giorgios (St George)

The patron saint of shepherds is greatly esteemed and, as a warrior saint, is doubly popular.
6. Agios Eftihios (St Eustacius)

St Eustacius is especially popular in southwest Crete, where many chapels and children bear his name.
7. Ag. Ioannis Theologos (St John the Divine)

St John wrote the Book of Revelations on Patmos, but he is also venerated on Crete.
8. Profitis Ilias (Prophet Elijah)

Many mountain-top chapels for this prophet may originally have been for the sun-god Helios.
9. Agioi Deka (Ten Saints)

Ten Cretan martyrs killed for their faith by the Romans have their church near Gortys.
10. Ag. Ioannis Prodromos (St John the Baptist)

St John is often shown in Greek art wearing goat-skin breeches, like the pre-Christian god Pan.