Church of Saint Anthony

Saint Anthony in Garipas — only the conch A hundred metres from Saints George and Nicholas, in the same village, stands a second ruin. Lassithiotakis wrote four words next to it: remnants in the conch. That was enough. The walls stand, the apse stands. Everything else — the roof, the vault, most of the walls — is long gone. Inside, scrub has taken over. In the conch of the apse there is still a fresco. A central figure with a large golden halo, two smaller haloes on either side. The faces are almost illegible. The composition is still recognisable. In a year perhaps less so. In ten years it is hard to say. Garipas has two roofless churches and two iconographic programmes disappearing at the same rate as the memory of who painted them and when.