Piraeus Seraphim: The anointing of the Saints is a reality that our Church has been living for centuries nowtranslated

With the proper ecclesiastical order, the Memorial of Saint Nile of Myrovlytos was honored again this year in the Holy Metropolis of Piraeus yesterday Wednesday 11 and today Thursday 12 November 2026. Yesterday, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, the solemn Vespers was celebrated, Celebrant of the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Piraeus, Mr. Seraphim, concelebrant of the Theophilist Bishop Achelous, Mr. Nifonos.

The High Priests were flanked by the General Hierarchal Commissioner Protopresbyter Ioannis Panagiotou, as well as clergy of the Piraeus Diocese and other Diocese.

During his sermon, His Holiness, among other things, referred to the life, the ascetic state and the miraculous event of the myroblysia of Saint Nile the Myroblytos, who lived in the 17th century.

His Holiness, initially, noted that we have a "unique privilege and a great blessing" to honor the memory of Saint Nile in this Church which "is the only Church in the entire Orthodox Catholic Church that extends to all the lengths and ends of the world, the planet".

Then, referring to the honored Saint Nilos, known as Nikolaos Terzakis, who was born in 1601 in Agios Petros Kynourias in the Peloponnese and...