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Fountain at the remains of church near the sea walls of Topkapi palace in Istanbul. According to the author, the Greek Orthodox of Istanbul would come to the fountain on the feast of the Transfiguration. Several of them would bury themselves in the sand and then drink from the holy fountain, thus realizing a symbolic transfiguration.

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The sacred spring at the Oracle of Demetra in Patras. After Christianity, the spring became the holy well of Hagios Andreas Church.

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The spring of Demeter in Patras, also the site of the oracle of Demeter, today holy spring of Agios Andreas.

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