Cathedral Holy Temple of Saint Titus

This guide to the Cathedral Holy Temple of Saint Titus in Heraklion opens at the port in May 1966, as crowds wait for a ship from Venice carrying the skull of Titus, the bishop Saint Paul sent to Crete. It traces how the relic left in 1669 when fleeing Venetians grabbed it ahead of the Ottoman conquest, and how the church became a mosque for two centuries before an 1856 earthquake toppled it. Listen for the nine years of negotiation that finally brought the relic home.