November 3: Collection of the Holy Relics of the Holy Great Martyr George the Trophy Bearertranslated

The Church celebrates the relict of Saint George the Trophy Bearer today and we honor the memory of the Martyrs Akepsima, Aithala and Joseph. After the cessation of persecutions and the prevalence of Christianity throughout the Roman state, under Constantine the Great, the Christians erected a magnificent Church in Lydda, Joppa, in Palestine, where they transferred the Relic of the Trophy-bearing George. On the same day, the opening of the Church took place and since then every year the Church celebrates the repatriation of his remains.
The faithful worship reverently the tomb of Saint George, under the sacred Altar of the church of the same name in Lydda, invoking the grace and blessing of God, with the embassies of the Great Martyr.
Man was created by God as the border of the material and spiritual world. The fact of collecting the relics is an ancient church tradition. The tabernacle of the Saints of the Church is an integral part of the whole psychosomatic entity of man, as the unique image of God and the abode of the Holy Spirit.
When a person enters the Church and participates in the holy Mysteries, i.e. the events for the initiated, the faithful, he is sanctified...



