Kalamata welcomed the Holy Cara of Agia Irini universallytranslated

With the presence of a large number of believers, representatives of the local authorities, monastic brotherhoods, clergy led by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Messinia Mr. Chrysostomos, the city of Kalamata welcomed on the afternoon of Sunday, October 18, 2026, the Holy Cara of the Holy Great Martyr Irene, which is kept in the Holy Church of Agia Irene Riganokampou, Patras.

The reception took place in the propylaea of ​​the celebrated Holy Monastery of the Prophet Joel. The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Patras, Mr. Chrysostomos, accompanied by the Protosygelos of I.M. Patron Archim. Artemios Argyropoulos and the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Oblou Archim. Nektarios Kotsakis. After the reception, the Holy Cara was taken in a procession inside the Catholic Church of the Holy Monastery and then the Solemn Vespers of the feast of the Prophet Joel, patron of Rev. Metropolitan of Patras Mr. Chrysostomos, concelebrant and Rev. Metropolitan of Messinia Mr. Chrysostomou.

Before the end of the Vespers service, the Reverend Messinias, after referring to the thirty-year friendship that connects him with the Reverend Patras, then thanked him for the great blessing that...