Saint Minas Holy Cathedral

This guide to Saint Minas Holy Cathedral in Heraklion opens on Easter Sunday 1826, when a white-haired horseman appeared from nowhere to scatter a mob threatening worshippers gathered inside, then vanished before anyone could find him. It follows how that legend made Saint Minas the city's patron, and how citizens broke ground in 1862 to raise the largest cathedral in Crete on the site of a chapel dating to 1735. Listen for who this Roman soldier turned hermit, martyred in Egypt centuries earlier, is said to have been.