Through My Lens: Agia Varvara

For today, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, here is a photo of the church of Agia Varvara (Saint Barbara). You come to it when you keep walking down the steps from where I took last week’s photo. It was built in the post-Byzantine era and renovated in the late nineteenth century.

Saint Barbara lived in the third century CE and is the patron saint of anyone working with explosives, including miners. For that reason, she was considered the patron saint of Serifos, which has a history of mining going back to Roman times that continued until as recently as 1965.