In critical parishes, the Metropolitan of Didymoteicho:translated

Continuing his summer pilgrimage, the Reverend Metropolitan of Didymoteicho, Orestia and Soufli, Mr. Damascinos, on the eve of the Transfiguration of the Savior and the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, visited parishes of our rural province in Northern and Central Evros. On Saturday, the 8th of August this year, His Eminence officiated at the Holy Parish Church of Panmegisto Taxiarhon in Petrotas, in the former Municipality of Trigonos, on the Greek-Bulgarian border, in memory of the New Martyr Agios Triantaphyllos, who was martyred in the year 1680 in Constantinople, flanked by Archim. Anthimos Regidis, a cleric of the Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupolis, who draws his origin from Petrota, the High Priest Commissioner of Trigonou Fr. An. Defeloudis and the parish vicar Fr. Triantafyllos Strakos.

The few inhabitants of the village of Petrota, on the occasion of the summer, welcome these days visitors from Stuttgart, Germany and from Alexandroupoli, where there are large groups of emigrants from Petrota. They all met together in the church of their village, rejoiced at the presence of their Bishop and wished him...