Η ολοκαύτωσις του Αρκαδίου

A historical narrative recounts the history of a prominent Cretan monastery, describing its origins, wealth, and repeated plundering, its role as a refuge and meeting place for revolutionaries, and internal deliberations over sheltering a revolutionary committee. It follows the escalation to a military siege by government forces, the confinement and dispersal of civilians and prisoners, the loss and attempted salvage of relics and manuscripts, and the eventual destruction of the monastery together with the deaths and suffering of monks and noncombatants.