Saint Riginos is the

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of the island of

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. His feast day, February 25, is a local holiday on the island. Christian tradition states that he was a

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who was tortured to death in 362 AD. Part of his remains are kept in a local church, but most of the relics stay in the

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in Nicosia,

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. In Skopelos there is a monastery bearing his name,

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4th-century Christian saints Saints from Roman Greece {{saint-stub