Just below Moni is one of the Balkans most important churches, Panagia Drosiani, which has faint, rare Byzantine frescoes from the 7th and 8th centuries. Its name means Our Lady of Refreshment, because once during a severe drought, when all the churches took their icons down to the sea to pray for rain, only the icon of this church got results.
The fading frescoes are visible in layers: to the right when you enter are the oldest -- one shows St. George with the Dragon Slayer astride his horse, along with a small boy, an image one usually see only in Cyprus and Crete. According to the legend, the saint saved the child and there met and slew the giant dragon that had terrorized the town. Opposite him was Saint Dimitrios, shown killing barbarians.
The church had made up of three chapels -- the middle one has a space for the faithful to worship at the altar, rather than in the nave, as became common in later centuries. Next to that was a very small secret school during the revolution. It is open mornings and then again late at night, in deserted winter, the bell was rung if it wasn’t open.