From Sunday 11th of Matthew, in Evangelistria, Piraeustranslated

Written by Panos N. Avramopoulos

A day with a major religious character, Sunday August 16, 11th of Matthew, for our church and the Christ-loving people of the center of Piraeus came to the holy church of Evangelistria, our great port, to celebrate the martyrdom of the Holy Apostle of the New, but also to mark at the same time the Anakomidi of the unmade image of the Lord from the Edessinos city, the memory of Saint Joseph the Hesychastos of Spilaiot, Saint Diomedes the Martyr of Anargyros and the Synaxis of the Virgin of Prekla, after the feast of the Dormition of the Virgin.

In the historic church of Evangelistria, which was built in 1892 and inaugurated in 1896, with the aim of then hosting all the pilgrims who traveled from all over Greece to Piraeus, to visit the church of Evangelistria in Tinos, to make their wish to the Virgin Mary, and who were unable to go to Megalochari. pilgrims found moral consolation in the Evangelistria of Piraeus, who did not manage to visit the Evangelistria of Tinos. In fact, it is said that in the 1920s, more than fifteen steamships, from all shipping...