Holy Vigil in honor of Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia in the Red Church of Karditsistranslated

On the evening of Monday, November 9, 2026, a Holy Vigil was held in honor of Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia, at the Holy Metropolitan Chapel of the Holy Twelve Apostles (Red Church) of Karditsis. The Holy Vigil was officiated by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Thessaliotidos and Phanariofersalon Mr. Timotheus, while during its duration a fragment of the holy relic of Saint Arsenios was placed for worship and sanctification of the faithful.

In his sermon, His Holiness referred to the life, the ascetic course and the sanctified personality of Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia, a great Saint of our Church, who, although he lived in difficult historical circumstances, managed to dedicate his life completely to God and become a vessel of divine grace.

Initially, he made reference to the origin and course of life of Osios, who came from Cappadocia in Asia Minor and lived through the uprooting of the Greek population from their ancestral homes, after the Asia Minor Catastrophe. As he characteristically pointed out, the Greeks were forced to abandon their roots, their homes and their lives, moving away from those areas where for centuries Greek culture flourished...