{"id":19968,"date":"2026-08-21T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/madonna-visits-patmos-lights-candles-and-reflects-on-her-spiritual-connection-to-greece-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:01:29","slug":"madonna-visits-patmos-lights-candles-and-reflects-on-her-spiritual-connection-to-greece-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/madonna-visits-patmos-lights-candles-and-reflects-on-her-spiritual-connection-to-greece-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Visits Patmos, Lights Candles and Reflects on Her Spiritual Connection to Greece \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<h3 id=\"h-pop-icon-madonna-has-shared-a-deeply-personal-reflection-on-her-recent-visit-to-the-greek-island-of-patmos-describing-the-experience-as-spiritually-meaningful-and-saying-she-felt-the-presence-of-god-during-her-stay\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pop icon Madonna has shared a deeply personal reflection on her recent visit to the Greek island of Patmos, describing the experience as spiritually meaningful and saying she felt the presence of God during her stay.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 68 year old singer spent three days on the island, where she visited the Cave of the Apocalypse, one of Patmos\u2019 most important religious sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During her visit, Madonna was photographed inside a church with her hair covered by a headscarf. She lit candles and was pictured beside the psalter, holding a religious book, while icons of the Virgin Mary could be seen in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing photos from her trip on Instagram, Madonna expressed her admiration for Patmos and its spiritual atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPrayers from Patmos! What a magical island. I truly felt the presence of God there,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madonna also reflected on her first visit to Greece, recalling that she was seven months pregnant with her son Rocco at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said returning to Greece years later with Rocco, now an adult, felt like completing a circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was like closing a circle, bringing him back there now as a grown man. It\u2019s good for the soul,\u201d Madonna wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her visit has attracted significant attention in Greece, particularly because of the religious setting of the photographs and her comments about spirituality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patmos, known as the \u201cIsland of the Apocalypse,\u201d is closely associated with Christianity and is traditionally believed to be the place where Saint John received the visions recorded in the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madonna\u2019s latest visit adds another chapter to her long connection with Greece, following her earlier travels to destinations including Corfu, Meteora and other Greek islands.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tCave of the Apocalypse, celebrity Greece, Greece, greek islands, Greek Orthodox Church, Madonna, Madonna in Greece, Madonna Patmos, Patmos, Rocco, spirituality, tourism Greece, Virgin Mary\t<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e431a0aaf2dcb7e221a3bd95d4b4996106e91f12afa178bba01dd45d1cdacc01?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e431a0aaf2dcb7e221a3bd95d4b4996106e91f12afa178bba01dd45d1cdacc01?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Athens Bureau<\/h5>\n<p>Athens Bureau is Greek City Times\u2019 news desk in Athens, reporting on Greek politics, society, economy, culture, and breaking national news for readers in Greece and the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa-solid fa-link\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/08\/22\/madonna-patmos-greece-spiritual-visit\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop icon Madonna has shared a deeply personal reflection on her recent visit to the Greek island of Patmos, describing the experience as spiritually meaningful and saying she felt the presence of God during her stay. The 68 year old singer spent three days on the island, where she visited the Cave of the Apocalypse, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Madonna Visits Patmos, Lights Candles and Reflects on Her Spiritual Connection to Greece \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/madonna-visits-patmos-lights-candles-and-reflects-on-her-spiritual-connection-to-greece-greek-city-times\/#more-19968\" aria-label=\"Read more about Madonna Visits Patmos, Lights Candles and Reflects on Her Spiritual Connection to Greece \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok_image_1787341394255-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}