Moral outburst for the solemn multi-priestly service of Agios Nektarios in Aeginatranslated

Written by Panos N. Avramopoulos

In a climate of moral upheaval and with the stormy presence of pious pilgrims from all over Greece and abroad - especially from Romania, which has Saint Nektarios as its patron, around 40 coaches from Romania arrived in Aegina! – took place on Monday 9-11-26, the solemn multi-priestly service for the feast of Agios Nektarios, in the homonymous monastery of the Agios, in the beautiful and enchanting Aegina. Of Agios Nektarios, who connected his virtuous and inspired priestly steps, with the island of Aegina and sealed with the monastic and spiritual seal-stone, the orthodox character of the island. Saint Nektarios (born Anastasios Kefalas, 1846–1920), who was born on October 1, 1846 in Silivria in Eastern Thrace from a poor but pious family, was Bishop of Pentapoleos of Egypt and is patron of the poor, the weak, the unemployed and cancer patients, for the many miracles he has done.

In Aegina, in 1904, he founded the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Xantos, on the ruins of the earlier monastery of Zoodochos Pigi. After he left the management of the Rice School in 1908,…