According to tradition, hermit Esaias was living in a cave on the mountain of Kykkos. One day, the Byzantine governor of the island Manuel Voutoumites, who was spending the summer at a village of Marathasa because of the heat of the season, went into the forest to hunt. Having lost his way in the forest he met Esaias and asked him to show him the way. The hermit who was not interested ... (more)