Phiolent(Fiolent, Feolent), Sevastopol(Sebastopol), Crimea, Ukraine.Cape Phiolent.Cape Fiolent.Cape Feolent.
There is no unanimous opinion as to the origin of its name, today's name of the cape is to some extend an echo of the old legend about the bloody sacrifices committed by Iphigenia in the Tauri sacred place - "Violent" in Latin means "cruel". The Tauri threw the miserable foreigners, unfortunate enough to turn out themselves near the cost of the Tauri, down into the sea from the high rock.
Cape Phiolent is also famous by the Grotto of Diana and Cross Rock (St.George's Cliff)). The legend says that in 890 several Greeks were captured by a horrible storm on the rock eastwards the Phiolent Cape. Feeling inevitable death, the miserable people started to pray George the Winner asking for protection. A miracle occurred: the storm was immediately over and the image of St. George appeared on the rock.
A year later the saved set up a small cave monastery and started to call the rock itself the rock of the Saint Image. In the 19th century in commemoration of the 1.000 anniversary of setting up a monastery, it was restored and in addition they installed a stony cross with the image of George the Winner killing a dragon on the rock of the Saint image.
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