Patras

I want to say this was 2021, 22.

I think it was in Patras, Greece.

Spell Patras, Greece.

Huh?

Spell it.

He actually brought carpenters and masons from Athens, and displayed all manner of zeal, thus winning favor and power for himself no less than for his city.

In like manner he persuaded the people of Patrae to attach their city to the sea by long walls.

Thereupon someone said to the Patraensians, Athens will swallow you up.

Perhaps so, said Alcibiades, but you will go slowly and feet first, whereas Sparta will swallow you head first and at one gulp.

However, he counseled the Athenians to assert dominion on land also, and to maintain in very deed the oath regularly propounded to their young warriors in the sanctuary of Agraulis.

I saw the people of God in that basement church built out of concrete, keeping vigil around the precious relics of the great saint of the 20th century.

I saw the possessed Maria from Patras revealing the unconfessed sins of others, and all of us chanting the lamentations of the saint.

And at the bishop's throne, the ascetic bishop of Hydra, Herotheus, Sansalis, standing perfectly straight for many hours.

It was the first time that I beheld an ascetical bishop, and it filled my heart.

They are repeatedly intercepting Nazi transport planes evacuating island garrisons under cover of low-hanging clouds.

Front dispatches say the Gulf of Corinth is thick with small German boats trying to run the gauntlet of British guns at Patras and escape into the Ionian Sea.

Many have been burned and sunk by shell fire or low-flying attack planes.

On the ground, British forces are reported to have driven 16 miles past the port of Rion to within 44 miles of Corinth.

He actually brought carpenters and masons from Athens, and displayed all manner of zeal, thus winning favor and power for himself no less than for his city.

In like manner he persuaded the people of Patrae to attach their city to the sea by long walls.

Thereupon someone said to the Patraensians, "Athens will swallow you up." "Perhaps so," said Alcibiades, "but you will go slowly and feet first; whereas Sparta will swallow you head first and at one gulp." However, he counseled the Athenians to assert dominion on land also, and to maintain in very deed the oath regularly propounded to their young warriors in the sanctuary of Agraulis.

They take oath that they will regard wheat, barley, the vine, and the olive as the natural boundaries of Attica; and they are thus trained to consider as their own all the habitable and fruitful earth.

But all this statecraft and eloquence and lofty purpose and cleverness was attended with great luxuriousness of life, with wanton drunkenness and lewdness, with effeminacy in dress [he would trail long purple robes through the marketplace], and with prodigal expenditures.

Waiting for them was a vast and confident Ottoman fleet.

On the morning of the 7th of October, the two sides finally came into view near the Gulf of Patras.

Cannons were loaded, soldiers prepared for battle, hundreds of oars drove the fleet towards one another.

What followed would become one of the most celebrated and brutal naval encounters in history.

Episode 6.

The Battle of Lepanto.

The Gulf of Patras is a body of water which links the Ionian Sea to the Gulf of Corinth.

In the modern world, it is the gateway to the shortcut provided by the Corinth Canal, which allows maritime traffic to travel from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea without having to sail around the Peloponnese.

With respect to the treatises translated in these volumes, the Metamorphosis is the most celebrated of all the works of Apuleius.

A great part of this fable may be said to be a paraphrase of the Ass of Lucian, which was originally derived from a work of Lucius Patrensis, who wrote in Greek, and was of Patrae, a city of Achaia.

The most important parts, however, of the Metamorphosis, the fable of Cupid and Psyche, and the eleventh book, in which Apuleius gives an account of his being initiated in the mysteries of Isis and Osiris, are not derived from any sources with which we are at present acquainted.

I call these the most important parts, because in the former, as it appears to me, the very ancient dogma of the pre-existence of the human soul, its lapse from the intelligible world to the earth, and its return from thence to its pristine state of felicity, are most accurately and beautifully adumbrated.

Verified news is hard to come by in an underground movement.

The brothers and sisters in Patras sent an encrypted report that Andrew was crucified on an X-shaped cross.

Further afield, can he trust these messages? Nathaniel was said to be flayed alive and then beheaded in Armenia.

It's very possible that he is now the last surviving member of the inner circle.