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Monastery of Agios Riginos

Outside the city, 4 km south-west, is the church of Agios Riginos, patron saint of Skopelos. An inscription was built in 1728, probably in the ruins of an earlier, Byzantine monastery. Today's temple was built in the 1960s.

In the yard of the monastery there is the sarcophagus of the Saint, the first bishop of the island, who martyred in the 4th century BC. There are cells in the northern corner of the monastery, while there is a fountain nearby.

The holy relic of Agios Riginos was transferred to Cyprus, where after a long time a Skopelite captain, Hatzi Constantine with devotion brings back his part, which is initially kept in the monastery of John the Baptist in Skopelos. Later it is transported where it is kept until today in the cathedral of the city, the "Birth of Christ" near the harbor.

Next to the site where the scapegoats buried the holy relic of their bishop (4 km southwest of the city, on a small hill) later built the monastery of Saint.

In the monastery, thousands of pilgrims from the surrounding islands (Skiathos Alonnisos) and Volos are celebrating every year on February 25th to honor Saint, who has often shown his love for his flock with therapies and other wonders that can to tell us all the inhabitants of Skopelos.

It is worthwhile to find on the island of Skopelos on the 24th and 25th of February, and to attend the liturgical worship events and the long walk of the Holy Relics of the Saint from the monastery on the streets of Skopelos to the temple of the Birth of Christ.