Agioi Deka - Agia Limni

Agioi Deka was once part of ancient Gortyn. The Roman cemetery may have been located here. The village's name dates back to 250 AD, when Saint Theodoulos and his nine companions were martyred here. The village was given the name "Ten Saints" in honor of these Christian martyrs.

Saint Theodoulos and his nine companions were deacons and priests who were captured during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Decius. They were tortured for 30 days, sentenced to death, and beheaded in the amphitheater of Gortyna—according to another tradition, at the site of the church of Agioi Deka.

On the outskirts of the village, there was a small pond where, in 1927, a woman dressed in black appeared to a child and told him about ten martyrs who had been beheaded on that spot. The apparitions repeated themselves until his parents visited the Metropolitan of Gortyna. That summer, when the pond was almost dry, he commissioned excavations. The workers found the bones of ten people. Subsequently, the chapel was built for them. Six of the tombs can be seen there, and four are built into the foundation walls.