October 28: We celebrate the Agia Skepi of the Most Holy Theotokostranslated

Today our Church honors the memory of the couple Terentius and Neonillis, their daughter Eunice and their other six children, who were martyred for Christ. Also, today it is customary to celebrate the Agia Skepi of the Most Holy Theotokos from the 1st of October, to coincide with the great national holiday of the 28th of October 1940. The reason for the transfer is obvious, since, in the consciousness of the Greeks, the Virgin Mary in every difficult moment and especially during the barbaric attack of the Italians in 1940, covered and helped the philochrist army and the Greek nation in general.

The history of the feast of Agia Skepi is related to the great miracle that took place in the church of Blacherna in Constantinople, during the vigil, during the reign of Leo I. St. Andreas the Christ Salos and his disciple Epiphanios, who were in the church, saw with their own eyes and watched ecstatically for a long time, the Most Holy Theotokos spreading her Holy Shroud, that is, her sacred omophorion, which was kept in a case on the sacred step of the particular church, and covering the multitude of believers.

Today, among the Panhellenic people who fought and sacrificed themselves in the heroic saga of...