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Constantinople was taken by Crusader forces in 1204, and they stripped the city of manyof its finest treasures — which now grace the public buildings of Venice — although a large consignment of books and manuscripts was transferred to the monastery at Patmos before the city fell.
In a.d. 95, St. John arrived on Patmos, a small rocky island in the Dodecanese, as a political prisoner.
The major island in the group is Rhodes (covered in its own Berlitz Pocket Guide), but others include Kos and Patmos.
Behind the cathedral, the 16th-century Renaissance church of San Giovanni Evangelista also has in its dome a fine Correggio fresco of the Vision of St. John on Patmos.