Kapsas Monastery

The Monastery of Agios Ioannis Kapsas is located 9km east of Makrygialos , near Goudouras . The monastery is part of the monastery of Toplou near Sitia and is dedicated to the Epitome of the Sacred Head of Saint John the Forerunner , which celebrates on August 29.

The Kapsa monastery is built like a fortress on a steep rocky slope above the sea, at the exit of the beautiful Pervolakia gorge . In front of it is the beautiful pebble beach of Kapsa .

In a cave next to the monastery, Iosif Gerontogiannis practiced asceticism when he lost his daughter. Then he turned to God and renounced his earlier impious life.

It is said that he performed many miracles, saw divine apparitions, walked on the sea as far as the opposite Koufonisi, and that he healed with the help of God from every disease. In fact, the testimonies of his miracles are many.

Saint Joseph Gerontogiannis is honored on August 7.