His relic is kept at the female monastery of Saint Patapios at Loutraki, a spa town near Athens, Greece.

Patapios was born in the 4th century AD in Thebes, Roman Egypt, to wealthy Christian parents.

After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, a relative of the Palailogos emperors and nephew of the Augusta Helena, Aggelis Notaras, in order to protect the relic of Saint Patapios from the Ottomans, transferred it to Mount Geraneia in southern Greece, near the town Thermai (Loutraki).

It has to be mentioned that the cave where the relic of Saint Patapios was transferred had actually functioned as a hermitage since the 11th century AD.

However, some visitors from the cave took pieces of the relics of St Patapios as an amulet, as Sister Patapia mentions.

Then, a priest from Loutraki, father Constantinos Susannis, took the relic of Patapios and kept it at home with the permission of the church to keep it away from vandals.

Originally they found in the cave an despoiled wooden cross, a membrane and coins which were delivered to the authorities.

In the cave there are Byzantine icons (including St. Patapios and St. Patience) by an unknown artist, which were painted probably in the 15th century.

Saint Patapios is well known for the miracles that he did in the past and still does nowadays, which are recorded with full details in the historical archives of the monastery which maintains a large library.

The memory of Patapios is celebrated on December 8; and also Tuesday after Easter (as a remembrance of the day of finding the relic).