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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Cretans Honor Harry Mark Petrakis

Dominating one of the walls at the Ellis Island Museum is a larger-than- life-size portrait of  a Greek Orthodox village priest from Crete sent to serve the needs of Greeks in the Utah of 1916-1918. The priest is Father Mark Petrakis. A hundred years later, his son, Harry Mark Petrakis is universally honored for his […]

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