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[[Image:Mantamados.jpg|thumb|right|Icon of Arch. Michael the "Mantamados"]][[Image:Procession - Mantamados.jpg|right|thumb|Procession at the church of Mandamados on Lesvos, Greece, during the religious festival dedicated to the [[Archangel Michael|Taxiarchis Michael]].]] '''Archangel Michael of Mantamados''' (Gr. O Μανταμάδος) refers to a miraculous [[icon]] of the [[Archangel Michael]] on the island of [[w:Lesvos|Lesvos]] and is one of the four miraculous [[icons]] of the Archangel in the [[w:Dodecanese|Dodecanese]] of [[Church of Greece|Greece]]. The monastery is known locally as ''Taxiarches'' (the "Archangel") and the feast of the icon is celebrated on [[November 8]] (the [[Angels|''Synaxis of the Bodiless Powers'']]) and [[September 6]] (the ''Miracle at Colossae'').
==Mantamados icon==
This is a famous monastery, made of stone. The monastery was most probably abandoned in 1462 the year of the island’s occupation by the Ottoman Turks. In the past, the monastery functioned as a men’s convent and is first mentioned in a 1661 ecclesiastical document. The small [[church]] within the monastery originally dates from the 17th century but was replaced by larger church in the 18th century. The present church ([[cathedral]]) was constructed in 1879 and follows a three-aisled [[basilica]] architectural type. The monastery is structured para-metrically around this church.
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== See also ==
*Miraculous [[icon]] of [[Archangel]] [[Archangel Michael|Michael]] '''[[Archangel Michael Panormitis|Panormitis]]''' on [[Metropolis of Symi|Symi]] island, [[w:Greece|Greece]]
*[[Metropolis of MytileneMytiline]]
==Hymns==
*[http://www.taxiarches-mantamados.gr/ Monastery of Mandamados '''Official Website'''] (in Greek)
*[http://www.mandamados.gr/ Municipality of Mandamados (Mantamados)]
*[http://www.stgeorgegreenville.org/Angels/Michael.html Saint George GO Cathedral article]
*[[w:Mantamados|Mantamados on Wikipedia]]
*[http://www.lesvos.gr/nomos/lesvos_tourist_guide/en-architecture.htm Lesvos Guide by Prefectural Commission of Tourism]
*[http://www.tlig.org/de/news/2008-11-12/2006/ Blog of trip to monastery (not Orthodox)]
===You Tube links===