Day of national joy and gratitude to the Most Holy Theotokos the glorious victory of the Greeks in 1940translated

The great Mother of God feast of Agia Skepi, which our holy Church established for us to celebrate today after being moved from the 1st of October, where it used to be celebrated, is at the same time for us Greeks and a national holiday.

By Archimandrite Pavlos Dimitrakopoulos (Theologian - Author)

It is a day of national joy and gratitude to the Most Holy Theotokos, not only because many times in the past in the historical course of our country she showed our small nation her providence and protection in an excellent way, but also because once again she proved her wonderful purpose in the epic of 40, in her wonderful victory against the mighty military forces of Italian fascism. The Most Holy Theotokos was once again the Great General, to whom our nation owes "the victories". There can be no doubt that the glorious victory of the Greeks in 1940 is a miracle of the Most Holy Theotokos.

As we have previously emphasized, in those critical years of the war, the Greeks, men and women, entrusted their struggle to the hands of the Virgin Mary. They did not have at their disposal the modern weapons of war, which the Italians had. But they had…