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Five hundred years later the Venetians and the Franks raided Argos and Greece and took away the saint's relics. | Five hundred years later the Venetians and the Franks raided Argos and Greece and took away the saint's relics. | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== |
Revision as of 21:54, January 25, 2008
Our father among the saints Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, is commemorated by the Church on May 3.
Life
St Peter was born in Constantinople in 855. St Peter died at the age of 70 and was buried in Argos. Five hundred years later the Venetians and the Franks raided Argos and Greece and took away the saint's relics.
Since the early 1990s Argos churchmen have been trying to locate the relics. They were eventually found in a monastery chapel near Rome. On 19 January 2008 the relics were ceremoniously returned by Vatican clerics to the Cathedral of Argos.
External links
- The Return of the Relics - Kathimerini Greek Newspaper article Mon 21 January 2008
- Saint Peter of Argos- Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation website
- St Peter the Wonderworker and Bishop of Argos - OCA website
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