The Greek Orthodox monastery of Panagia Vrissis on the Greek island of Sifnos in the Cyclades

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The Holly Monastery of “Panagia Vrissis” or of the “Most Holy God’s Mother of Vrissi” or of “Kyrias Vrissianis” or of “Natal of God’s Mother in Vrissi” as it is referred to the copy of the A Codex,was built by a pious man, named Benjamin, who held the ecclesiastical dignity of “Logothetis” before 1660. The Monastery between 1639 and 1676 became a Patriarch’s “Stavropigio” (the Monastery has been founded and blessed by the Patriarch Himself) according to the official letter of Patriarch Parthenios. The Monastery is settled on a low hill, a few kilometers after the village of Exabela.

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