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- β18 August 2025duchowosc
The Prophet Elijah and an Unforgettable Panigiri
What shook me β and why it wasnβt the earthquake.
- β15 August 2025ikonografia
Dekapentavgoustos, or the Dormition of the Mother of God
A great feast and a great story told in icons and frescoes.
- β9 August 2025historia
A Subjective List of Infuriating Things
What annoys me, irritates me, and makes me laugh. Zero pomp, lots of side-eye.
- β8 August 2025koscioly
Maza, Church of Saint Nicholas
Small, beautiful, and wrapped in local legend.
- β3 June 2025historia
Crete keeps shaking β and not just recently.
The birth of a new island on an old map.
- β6 April 2025wenecja
What Gerola Saw β and What We Will Never See Again
The story of one church from Giuseppe Gerolaβs monumental catalog.
- β23 March 2025koscioly
Churches, Eyes, and Alexis Zorbas
The Cretan mindset, or: Love me, darling β and later Iβll be your aunt again.
- β9 March 2025historia
Forgotten Heroines
Women of the Cretan resistance during the Second World War.
- β14 January 2025ikonografia
Seraphim and Cherubim in Cretan Iconography
Heavenly beings in the churches of Crete and why their presence is so rare and exceptional.
- β6 January 2025biblistyka
The Three Kings, or the guinea pig
An iconographic tale about kings who never existed.
- β14 December 2024duchowosc
How Jesus Was Bathed
Cretan Frescoes, Apocrypha, and Other Inconvenient Facts About the Nativity
- β10 November 2024historia
Crete in Darwinian Terms, or the Evolution of Attitude
What has changed over the years in how I see Crete.