Metropolitan of Hydra at the Exhibition on: "Mount Athos - Place of Silence" by George Taxidistranslated

The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, Mr. Ephraim, on the afternoon of Saturday, August 8, 2026, visited the Exhibition on the theme: "HOLY MOUNTAIN - PLACE OF SILENCE" with works by the artist Mr. Giorgos Taxidis. The exhibition is hosted in the central hall of the GAC/Historical Archives of the Museum of Hydra as part of the celebrations of Theotokos 2026, in co-organization and collaboration with the Holy Dormition Cathedral of Hydra and the Agioreitiki Estia of Thessaloniki.

His Eminence was given a tour by the President of the GAK/ I.A.M.Y Agency Mrs. Konstantina Adamopoulou and expressed his joy and emotion for this successful exhibition as well as for the co-organization within the framework of THEOMITORICS 2026.

His Eminence blessed all the co-organizers as well as Mr. Georgios Taxidis.

The exhibition is the fruit of the multi-year visual program of the Agioreitiki Estia with the visual artist Giorgos Taxidis, who in the five years 2020-2025 made more than fifteen trips to the Athonian State, visited all twenty monasteries, watched the daily program of the monks, participated in the religious events, talked with them and captured this...