Land grants
"...after a number of days, (Saint John) came to a fine, beautiful place called Ariou by the village of Pigi, and on entreating the residents of the village he was given a site upon which he built a church dedicated to Saint George the Fishcatcher. And when the same villagers witnessed the good virtue and divine accomplishments of the Saint, his fasting, vigils, prayers and thanksgiving, they gave him two zeugaria [a sizeable acreage] of fields and a few young trees, which he dedicated to the same monastery..."
(Nikolaos V. Tomadakis, "St. John Xenos and his Will". Kritika Chronika, vol. II 1948, p. 63 - in Greek)
Fresco from the Church of the Virgin Mary at Agia Paraskevi in Amari, showing G. Varouchas and his spouse as benefactors, 1516
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