Top 10 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.
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2. Agios Nikolaos (St Nicholas)
The patron saint of seafarers and fishermen is honoured all around the coast of Crete.
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3. Agios Pavlos (St Paul)
The chapel of Agios Pavlos stands where the saint was swept ashore between Agia Roumeli and Loutro.
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4. Agios Michalis (St Michael)
The commander of the heavenly host is especially revered by combative Cretans.
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5. Agios Giorgios (St George)
The patron saint of shepherds is greatly esteemed and, as a warrior saint, is doubly popular.
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6. Agios Eftihios (St Eustacius)
St Eustacius is especially popular in southwest Crete, where many chapels and children bear his name.
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7. Ag. Ioannis Theologos (St John the Divine)
St John wrote the Book of Revelations on Patmos, but he is also venerated on Crete.
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8. Profitis Ilias (Prophet Elijah)
Many mountain-top chapels for this prophet may originally have been for the sun-god Helios.
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9. Agioi Deka (Ten Saints)
Ten Cretan martyrs killed for their faith by the Romans have their church near Gortys.
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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.
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