AGIOS THALALEOS-INFO
Small and picturesque village of Municipality of Naxos, with about 85 residents, who are mainly engaged in agriculture. It is built at the foot of the hill Agios Fokas. Before him lies a beautiful valley with orchards watered by wells having no running water flows through. It is five kilometers from the island's capital and is the first of the four settlements that constitute the district of ink.
The houses are built next to each other with narrow streets with no particular architecture. Most are small and ground.
It took its name from the homonymous Thallelaio the Holy Miracle celebrated on May 20.
The church of St. are two naves. It is not known exactly when built, but the outer wall there is a faded sign: the Servant MUNICH ABBOT SAGREDOC (1501)
Previously there was a marble relief and form of the abbot, but disappeared in recent years, seems to steal.
Saint Thallelaios lived during the times of King Noumerianou, in the year 284. Came from Lebanon and was the son of Verouki and Pomylias. Endured many tortures to embrace idolatry and end beheaded. He had studied physician and offered services without ever gets money (Anargyros). And today reported many miracles. Remember chanted the sequence written by Saint Peter Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain in 1972, and the spacious courtyard of the temple was and is the biggest festival of the island.
Then the monastery of St. Thallelaiou together with Fotodoti and Hagia considered of the most ancient monasteries of the island, since he is mentioned, that in 1509 the Duke Crispus spent these three monasteries in the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
From archaeological point of view, the settlement has to show the old aqueduct that brought water from the source of Flerio in Chora, the years of the tyrant Lygdamis, which was restored in recent years and is located on the eastern edge of the village. Also NE of the church must have existed in ancient times as a sacred witness loose marbles, many of which have been used to build the parish church.