The Monastery of St. Patapios is a monastery for women located 14km from Loutraki, Greece on the Geraneai mountains.
The monastery, which is dedicated to St. Patapius of Thebes, was founded in 1952, around the cave where the relics of Patapius were found in 1904.
Saint Patapius was born in 380 in the Egyptian city of Thebes. At a young age, lived the life of a hermit in the desert. Many visited him to take his advice and to listen to his preaching. Later in his life, Patapios left Thebes and the desert for Constantinople. St. Patapios lived at the area of Blachernae at the Xero Oros (dry mountain) and he established a monastery, the Monastery of the Egyptians, where he eventually died.
After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, Aggelis Notaras, in order to protect the relic of Saint Patapios from the Ottomans, transferred it to Mount Geraneia in southern Greece, near the town Loutraki.
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