Saint Phanourios
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Saint Phanourios (Greek: Άγιος Φανούριος, meaning "the revealer") also known as St. Phanourios the Newly-Manifest (Greek: Άγιος Φανούριος ο Νεοφανής) is recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.[2] He is commemorated on August 27.[3]
Saint Phanourios | |
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Great Martyr[1] and Newly-Revealed | |
Born | Unknown |
Died | Unknown Rhodes |
Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Feast | August 27 |
Attributes | Christian martyr Soldier holding a candle, symbolic of his patronage as a finder of lost objects |
Patronage | Lost Objects, Rhodes |
Cretan school artist Angelos Akotantos from Crete had painted a number of the Saint's icons many times depicting him killing a dragon; this tradition is found mainly in Crete especially in icons of the 15th century when the Saint is said to have saved many Cretans from certain death from the hands of the invading Ottomans.[4]
The chapel of Saint Phanourios near the village of Agios Georgios on the north coast of the island of Cyprus is located near fossil bones of pygmy hippopotamuses. Locals believed them to be the bones of the saint and would powder them into a healing drink.[5] The Cypriot dwarf hippopotamus, Hippopotamus minor, was assigned the binomial name Phanourios minutus in 1972.[6]