Holy Metropolitan Church of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary

This guide to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens opens on Easter Sunday 1821, when an angry sultan in Constantinople had his own archbishop, Patriarch Gregory the Fifth, hanged from a gate and his body thrown into the Bosphorus. It follows a passing Greek merchant ship that pulled the body from the water and kept it safe abroad for decades, and it introduces Philothei, a nun killed in 1589 for ransoming Greek women from Ottoman harems. Stand quietly near the marble shrine inside the cathedral while you listen.