Metropolitan Dimitriados: "We are in danger of a modern nihilism"translated

The memory of our local Agios Apostolos of Neos, from Agios Lavrentios Pelios, was celebrated by the Church of Dimitrias on the two days of August 15 and 16, 2026. The center of the celebration was the Holy Pilgrimage Church of the Saint, in his birthplace, Agios Lavrentios of Pelion, where on the eve of the feast, the Great Solemn Vespers was held, presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Demitriados and Almyros, Mr. Ignatiou. The Member of Parliament of Magnesia Mr. Christos Boukoros, the Deputy Governor of Magnesia and Northern Sporades Ms. Anna Maria Papadimitriou, the Director of the Police Directorate of Magnesia Mr. Athanasios Koulouris, as well as a number of pilgrims were present.

In his sermon, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Dimitrias and Almyros, Mr. Ignatios, first referred to the great feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, pointing out the widespread participation of the people in the devotional gatherings on the fifteenth of August and expressing his praise to God for the peaceful celebration of the festivities in our local Church. "The All-Good God required us to celebrate the great feast of the Dormition of the Virgin, the Summer Easter, with a widespread presence and an essential devotional life of the faithful in...