Kissamos Amfilochios in the nomenclature of the Professor of I.M. Zoodochou Pigis Parthenontranslated

During the feast of the Saint Parthenomartyr Markella of Chiopolitis, the Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos Mr. Amfilochios officiated at the Holy Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi, Parthenon, where the Nun Markella, a nun, leads her nomenclature. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, His Holiness said: "The feast of the holy virgin-martyr Markelli of Chiopolitis brought us all to this holy palladium of our Virgin Mary. We thank the Holy Triune God, Who gives us His heavenly gifts, the Saints and Martyrs of our faith, to illuminate the path of our own life and spiritual struggle, as models of life and hope.

But we thank him for another reason. Because he gave us, as a heavenly gift, Gerontissa Markella, respected by all of us, who today bears her sept names. This modest, graceful and humble Gerontissa who for more than six decades, through her lonely dolichos, wishes and prays for all of us. Her prayer not only for the lovely Brotherhood of the Monastery, but also for all of us is her most precious gift and offering. We humbly wish to the Holy God and our Virgin Mother, Who all these decades so...