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'''Sister Patapia''' is a [[nun]] at the [[Monastery of St Patapios (Loutraki, Greece)|Greek nunnery of Saint Patapios]] at the mountain Geraneia, in Loutraki, Greece. There she was named mother superior from 1963 until 1970 when she resigned because of health problems. She helped contributed enormously at to the creation of the [[monastery]]. She has also experienced many miracles from Saint[[Patapius of Thebes]]
==Life==
She was born in Corinth, Greece in 1931 and on the age of 21 she decided to become a nun at the Saint Patapios monastery that in that which at the time had only a couple of nuns and 2 - 3 small cell cells - rooms.Nun Patapia helped very much at with the creation of the nunnery convent that was established in 1952 by father Father Nektarios Marmarinos, a priest from Corinth. The first mother superior was sister Siglitiki. In the first years the monastery was poor, without road access, neither or water supply.The nuns transferred water with a donkey from a spring that was some miles distanceaway. Nun Patapia straggled struggled to build the nunneryconvent. She gave strengthened the faith to of the rest nuns and finally the monastery thrived and today is very famous. It has 40 nuns and its access is easy from Loutraki has been made simpler via a modern road.Nun Patapia also experienced many miracles of Saint Patapios, including the donation of money, food and supplies at the time when the monastery was poor and there weren’t enough money lacking in basic resources to build itor sustain the nuns. Also nun Patapia's health is a miracle its selfitself. She suffered many severe health problems, but today she is alive and serves the rest of the nuns and the people who come and visit the monastery.
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