The feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the Holy Metropolis of Thebestranslated

With particular splendor and in an atmosphere of spiritual joy and rapture, the great Theotokos feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary was celebrated in the Holy Metropolis of Thebes, Levadeia and Avlis. On the afternoon of Monday, September 7, 2026, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Thebes, Levadeia and Avlis, Mr. George, went to the celebrating Holy Monastery of the Protection of the Christians of Asopia, where he officiated during the Solemn Vespers Service.

The Mass was attended by pious pilgrims from Asopia and the wider region, who came to commemorate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and seek Her maternal protection. Among the clergy who attended were the Dean of the Holy Monastery of Agios Symeon the New Theologian of Kalamos Attica and the Most Reverend Protopresbyter Fr. Hieronymos Manolopoulos. His Holiness, during his speech, referred to the deeper theological and soteriological meaning of the holiday, stressing that the Birth of the Virgin is the beginning of the events that...