Holy Monastery of Prousou

A few years before the uprising of 1821, the spiritual Kyrillos Kastanofyllis was sent to the monastery as abbot. He was a member of the Friendly Society and the pretext was to correct his alleged spiritual and moral decline. Immediately and based on a plan, he organized and operated the “School of Greek Letters” (1818-1828). The Monastery was a center of political guidance of the liberation struggle (there are letters of Mavrocordatos etc.). He played a crucial role in the entire management of the siege of Messolonghi and also in saving many after the destruction of the “Exodus”. It functioned throughout the match as a hospital and convalescent hospital for the wounded. Karaiskakis had his headquarters in the monastery. In fact, General Karaiskakis donated the silver cover of the icon as a sign of gratitude for the heat, which was bothering him and from which he was cured during his stay in the Monastery. The Vault of the Monastery today has the weapons of Karaiskakis. A large part of the Monastery was burned by the Germans on August 16, 1944, because it was a support center for the Resistance rebels. Many relics, utensils, manuscripts and books were destroyed, but not the most precious one icon of the Virgin, which had been placed in a crypt. After the Civil War, the rebuilding of the Monastery was started again by the abbot Germanos, which was continued in the 1970s by the then abbot of the monastery and later abbot of the Holy Monastery of Dochiario of Mount Athos Grigorios.