Greece - Day 6 - A day with the living and the dead

September 24, 2008 | Filed Under Cyclades, Syros, Uncategorized, greece

Met my favorite priest today. Actually we’ve met briefly twice before but this time we talked. He is the Greek Orthodox priest with the church on the hill above Ermopoulis. Yesterday though, he had duty with the dead at the only Greek Orthodox cemetery on Syros. But he’s not at all morose, particularly serious or at all what you would expect, he’s more of a comedian and very helpful. “Yes, yes, it is my turn to sit this week here with the dead. I much prefer the living,” he says with a big smile. “It is much better down here than it is up there,” his finger pointing to heaven. “But what are you going to do?”

You can find him at the only Greek Orthodox cemetery of Syros during the day. Here’s there all week.