Agii Theodori, the petrified monsters, are two small islands off the coast of Crete. Legend tells that long ago these islands didn’t exist. A sea monster and its baby were coming to attack the villagers who prayed to the Virgin Mary and to St. George to spare them. Then a miracle occurred and the monsters were petrified into stone, thus forming these two small islands.
Crete’s Petrified Monsters
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