Breaking our voyage from Dubrovnik to Haifa was a stop at the island of Patmos. With the city of Chora (and a population under 4,000) this Dodecanese island is a pilgrimage site for Greek Orthodox because it is where John of Patmos received visions of the Book of 
Revelations in a cave, and where he composed the Book of Revelations in the New Testament. The Monastery dates from 1088 and includes fortifications designed to thwart Turkish attacks on the island, though it fell to the Turks eventually (then to the Italians) and finally joined Greece in 1948.