The celebration of Panagia Myrtidiotissa in rural Paliouri Evrostranslated

With particular joy, the Christians of the traditional settlement of Paliouri, the former Municipality of Metaxades in Evros, today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, came to church, on the occasion of the Theotokos feast of Our Lady of Myrtidiotissa, in the Holy Parish Church of Agios Athanasios, where the event is kept as a precious treasure and a miraculous icon of Theomitoros, the so-called "Paliuriotissa", which was found years ago and preserved. This precious heirloom annually gathers the remaining inhabitants of the village to draw hope and consolation from the Virgin Mother. In his sermon, His Holiness, who presided over the Eucharistic Assembly, citing the motto of the feast: "O fountain of empty, of good things, yours is the pansept", emphasized that the image of the Virgin Mary is likened to a source that never runs dry and from which donations, consolation and hope overflow for every believer.

In particular, he said: "The icon of the Virgin Mary is presented to us by the hymn writer as an "Inexhaustible Fountain", that is, as an inexhaustible source, from which springs the majesty of Her maternal love, which never runs out. Like the…