Panagia Nafpaktiotissa

[1] The case of the Virgin of Nafpaktos is inextricably linked to the historical Byzantine parchment kept in Palermo, Sicily, specifically in the archive of the Regia Cappella Palatina (State Museum of the Palace Chapel).

[4] At her head, the parchment bears a miniature of the Virgin Mary standing on a marble floor and wearing a blue mantle and a purple tunic.

This pilgrimage was famous during the years of the Byzantine Empire and the Frankish rule and enjoyed privileges and donations from kings and emperors as the learned Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Ioannis Apokaykos (1217 AD) saves us.

In Chrysoboulos of Theodoros Angelos Komnenos Doukas, Despot of Epirus, issued in May 1228, at the request of Apokaukos, his decision to help the metropolitan temple of Nafpaktos as a dedication to the city's patroness Theotokos is mentioned.

The Venetian Republic wrote the same in the Palazzo Ducale: Non virtus, non arma, non duces, sed Maria Rozarii vit ores nos feces.