The seven survivors
Mosaics from before Iconoclasm.
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A young Roman officer, secretly Christian and teaching it, executed in the camp bath โ the city then credited him its survival of every siege (Slav, Arab, Norman), making him Thessaloniki's protector and second name: half the city's men are practically called Dimitris.
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Agios Dimitrios is the city's mother church: Greece's largest, over the grave of Thessaloniki's patron โ the Roman officer executed in a camp bath (~306 AD) who became its guardian through the sieges โ a five-aisled basilica burnt in 1917 and faithfully rebuilt, its seven surviving mosaics (5th-7th century) jewels from before Iconoclasm: Demetrius with the children, and with the church's founders, most famous. Its true treasure is below: the Crypt โ the very Roman bath of his death, columns, vaults and the holy-oil fountain, a moving underground museum, free. It is Greek Orthodoxy's second pilgrimage โ its season late October: Demetrius' feast and the city's 1912 liberation day deliberately adjacent, the whole city in festival.
Mosaics from before Iconoclasm.
The martyrdom vaults and their holy oil.
Agiou Dimitriou, 54633 Thessaloniki