Jeremias of Crete

Jeremias was head of the dependency of the Mother of God Zerviotissa at Stylos in Crete, killed by the Turks in July 1821. He is honoured as a new martyr and commemorated on the second Sunday of Matthew, the day on which all the saints of Patmos are remembered. He has no known canonization.

The sources say no more about him. He was the head of the dependency of the Panagia Zerviotissa at Stylos near Chania, a dependency of the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian on Patmos. The place lies near the ancient city of Aptera, about twenty-⁠five kilometres from Chania. The church, sometimes called Monastira for its size, was built at the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century by the monks of Patmos, on the estates in the Aptera area that Emperor Alexios I Komnenos had granted to Saint Christodoulos. It is a cruciform church with an octagonal dome, and little of its fresco decoration survives.