Multi-priestly Vespers in Corfu for New Year's Daytranslated

With the celebration of the Polyhieratic Vespers, presided over by the Reverend Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria, Mr. Epiphanios, and co-celebrated by the Reverend Metropolitans of Bresthenes, Mr. Theoklitos, Kythira, Mr. Seraphim, and the familiar Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxos and Diapontian Islands, Mr. Nektarios, began the Saturday afternoon, October 31, 2026, at the Holy Pilgrimage of Agios Spyridon in Corfu, the liturgical events for the New Year, in memory of the supernatural miracle of the Saint, by which he saved the island from the plague in 1673.

The Holy High Priests were addressed by the Metropolitan of Corfu, Mr. Nektarios, who, after thanking them for their participation in the Corfu festival, reminded them that when the recent outbreak of the corona virus, the plague of our time, took place, humanity did not realize that the grace of God and faith in Him is our true strength and that the human measures that so help us are not enough they were disturbed, while in 1673 the people took refuge in Agios and he redeemed them.

Mr. Nektarios pointed out that the place never forgot the love and trust in the Saint, who for once stopped the plague. The faith of the...