Patmos

Patmos (or PATINO), a rocky island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Sporades, lies to the south of Samos; area, 16 sq. m. In a cave here, it is said, the exiled apostle John saw the visions of the Book of Revelation. The famous monastery of 'John the Divine' was built in 1088. The island is under Turkish rule, but is inhabited by about 4000 Greeks, mostly sponge-fishers. See Tozer, Islands of the Aegean (1890); and the Marquis of Bute in the Scottish Review, v. 103.