Functional and cultural feast in the heart of Lokristranslated

Yesterday was a particularly special day for the ecclesiastical area of the Holy Episcopate of Talanti and Lokris of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotidos, as a great spiritual and functional event was combined with an equally great and historical cultural event with an aroma of solidarity and giving.

For the 108th consecutive time, Atalanti, the seat of the Metropolitan of Fthiotida in the region of Talanti and Lokris, reverently litanized the Ephesian Miraculous Icon of Saints Anargyro, from the female Holy Monastery of the same name to the Holy Metropolitan Church of Saints Theodoros of Atalanti, where everyone, the Bishop, the Holy Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhood, the Authorities of the place and the faithful people, of all ages, once again expressed their gratitude to the Saints Anargyros, who in 1918 saved the city of Atalanta from the pandemic of the deadly Spanish flu.

With emotion and tears in his eyes, the Director of the Holy Diocese of Talanti and Locris, Archim. Fr. Dimitrios Zelianaos, testified about his ancestors' experiences of the great and saving miraculous events of 1918, while His Eminence Metropolitan Fthiotidos Mr. Simeon expressed his gratitude...