Sunday V' Luke in Didymoteichotranslated

The Church near Didymoteicho on the 1st of November alongside the memory of Saints Anargyros Cosmas and Damianos, to whose name the Chapel of Didymoteicho Hospital is dedicated, honors the local saints, the Holy Martyr Iakovos the Younger and his confessing disciples, Iakovos the Deacon and Dionysios, in the Sanctuary Metropolitan Church of Agios Athanasios in the Castle of Didymoteicho, where they were tortured and martyred on November 1, 1519. [Next to the Church to this day there are the pits that were used as prisons during the Turkish occupation]. In this Holy Church, a fragment of their holy relics is kept for the sanctification of the faithful as a precious heirloom and treasure.

St. James and his disciples, after many years of training on Mount Athos, with the blessing of the Patriarch St. Niphonos (†1508), in an era of violent conversions to Islam, surrounded the villages and cities of Greece, supporting the Christians in their faith and their traditions. Because their missionary activity disturbed the conquerors, they were arrested in Trikala and then, after much suffering, they were taken to Didymoteicho, where they were imprisoned.

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