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Prefecture: Heraclion
Address:
Αγ. Θωμάς 
Telephone:
Agios Ioasath
Στην άκρη του χωριού, σε τοπίο μοναδικής ομορφιάς, μέσα σε ένα σπήλαιο βρίσκεται η μοναδική εκκλησία στην Κρήτη αφιερωμένη στον Άγιο Ιωάσαθ. Πρόκειται για προχριστιανικό λαξευτό τάφο που το 12ο αιώνα μετατράπηκε σε εκκλησία.
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This village Agios Thomas belongs to the municipality of Aghia Varvara and lies at 530 m above sea level. It is 30 km away from Heraklion and has a panoramic view over the whole area to the SE of Aghia Varvara.
The village is very old and the first reference we have of it, is in a document of 1371, where it is quoted as a feudal property of Petrus de Medio, and again in a document dated 1380.
The village owes its name to the tripartite domed church, which still preserves part of its original wall paintings.
There are a great many caves and cisterns cut out of the rock in the area; the caves were used as graves. The village of Aghios Thomas boasts of two great personalities born there: Kirikas Chairetis Kalamaras and the empirical doctor and fighter Logios, born in 1771.
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