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VenetJans and Ottomans in the Southeast Peloponnese 199
Mon. Prophet Elijah near Geraki' 2 4
Mon. Saviour near Molaoi 3
Mon. St Catherine near Chrysapha 5
Mon. St Demetrios at Prastos" 6
Mon. St Nicholas at Prastos" 12
Mon . St Nicholas Karyas at Prastos· 5 9
Mon. Virgin at Mari" 11
Mon. Virgin Eloni 67
2
Aghios Kosmas" as a dependency (metochion) of the Forty Saints'. See T.
A. Gritsopoulos. "Ta monasteria tou Mariou kai tou Aghiou Georgiou tou
Dromea en Kynouria" [The monasteries of Mari and St George Dromeos
in Kynouria]. Hronika ton Kynouriaton [Chronicles of the Kynouriansl 1
(1951).44.
62 The monastery of Prophet Elijah Daphni lies one hour west of Geraki.
upon a foothill of Parnon. Its katholikon still stands intact. in the midst of
ruined cells. and is of the Athonite type of cross-in-square plan with dome
and lateral conches on the long walls. See T. A. Gritsopoulos. He Ekklesia
tes Peloponnesou meta ten Alosin [The Church of the Peloponnese after the
Fall of Constantinoplel. Athens 1992. 445-446.
63 This is the Rheontinos monastery. in the name of St Demetrios. See I.
Yannaropoulos. "Dikaiopraktika eggrafa ek tes mones Rheontinou"
[Judicial documents from the Rheontinos monastery]. Peloponnesiaka 8
(1971). 201 -238 and T. A. Gritsopoulos. "Hristianika mnemeia tou
Prastou" [Christian monuments of Prastos]. Peloponnesiaka 12 (1976-
1977). 194-205.
6. Th. Vagenas mentions a dissolved monastery of St Nicholas or otherwise
of Fouska; it was situated between Prastos and Aghios Andreos. Another
dissolved monastery with the eponym St Nicholas or of Syntza is located
near Leonidion. See Th. Vagenas. "Dodeka palaia tsakonika monastiria"
[Twelve old Tsakonian monasteriesl. Hronika ton Tsakonon [Chronicles of
Tsakoniansl 3 (1969). 130 .
• 5 A preserved monastery near Tyros. see ibidem. 130.
66 The monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin. the surnamed Mari.
located beside the village of Selinous. about which we know little except that
straight after the War of Independence it had six monks. according to what
was instituted under the Regency of Otto. it followed the fate of a host of
other monasteries. was dissolved and the few inmates of it were ordered to
coalesce 'in a neighbouring monastery'. See T. A. Gritsopoulos. "Ta
monasteria tou Mariou kai tou Aghiou Georgiou tou Dromea en Kynouria".
op. cit.. 43.