Qualla: Panagia Kanala https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/panagia-kanala-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Panagia Kanala https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala Panagia Kanala: Introduction https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala/ Photo credit MargaritaPat, CC BY-SA 4.0. The story of the Panagia Kanala begins at night, on the water. Fishermen working the channel between Kythnos and Serifos encountered something unexpected in the sea — the icon of the Virgin Mary, the one now enshrined above the bay of Kanala. They brought it to their village, Dryopida. Then, according to the tradition that has carried this story across generations, the Virgin appeared to the fishermen in their sleep and told them where she wanted her church built: not in Dryopida, but above the bay on the island's southern coast. The church was built where she indicated. The icon has remained there since.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/panagia-kanala-wp/sw9k-panagia-kanala-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Panagia Kanala: The Icon and Its Maker https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. The icon of Panagia Kanala depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child in her left arm, leaning her head slightly toward him — a tender, precisely rendered gesture that places this work within the tradition of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Marian iconography. The Archangels G...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/panagia-kanala-wp/sw9k-panagia-kanala-the-icon-and-its-maker.mp3 0:06 2 full Panagia Kanala: Above the Bay https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala/ Photo credit FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0. The monastery of Panagia Kanala stands on a hillside above the bay of the same name, on the southeastern coast of Kythnos. The bay itself has developed into a small coastal settlement — one of several such communities that have grown at Kythnos's more accessible beaches over rece...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/panagia-kanala-wp/sw9k-panagia-kanala-above-the-bay.mp3 0:06 3 full Panagia Kanala: A Holy Pilgrimage Since 1973 https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala/ Photo credit Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1973, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece issued a formal decree recognizing the church of Panagia Kanala as a Holy Pilgrimage — an official designation that acknowledges the site's place in Greek Orthodox devotional life and its significance to believers beyond the island ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/panagia-kanala-wp/sw9k-panagia-kanala-a-holy-pilgrimage-since-1973.mp3 0:06 4 full Panagia Kanala: The Patron of the Island https://qualla.com/panagia-kanala/ Photo credit Γιάννης Μαχαίρας, CC BY-SA 4.0. Panagia Kanala is the patron of Kythnos. On an island that counts well over a hundred churches and chapels, many of which serve specific villages, neighborhoods, or feast-day communities, the monastery above Kanala holds a different status — not merely a local church but the isla...

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