Holy Monastery of the Life-giving Fount (Poros, Greece)

The Holy Monastery of the Life-giving Fount (Known locally as "Zoodochos Pigis", Gr. 'η Μονή Ζωοδόχου Πηγής Καλαυρείας') is an attractive 18th-century monastery at Kalavrias, 4km east of the main city on Poros island, in Greece. It was founded in 1720 AD by His Grace Archbishop Iakovos II of Athens (1713-1734) around the island's only spring.
==History==
This history of the monastery dates back to the beginning of the 18th-century when a bishop of Athens, Iakovos II, was cured by drinking water from a spring at that location. The Archbishop was suffering from an illness called lithiasis.A condition causing concretions of mineral salts, or calculi, in the pancreas, tear ducts, appendix, or kidneys From his gratitude he founded the monastery in that location.The Monastery on Poros Island by Roger Berlin
In 1733, Paisius II of Constantinople (1744-1748) recognised the monastery under the jurisdiction of Constantinople. The act gives it a lot of privileges. In 1798, Gregory V of Constantinople (1797-1798), ratified Paisios's second document relating to the privileges of the monastery, with a sigillion (officially sealed document), kept in the quest quarters (Archondariki) of the monastery.Poros Island
There is a little chapel near this monastery dedicated to the Ss. Anargyri.
== Architecture ==
==See also==
* Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina of the Church of Greece
==References==
Category:Monasteries
Category:Greek Monasteries