Reverend Pilgrimage of the Metropolis of Ilia to the Tomb of Agios Paisios in Sourotitranslated

With special spiritual joy and emotion, the Three-Day Pilgrimage of the Holy Metropolis of Ilia and Oleni began, with the blessed presence of the Reverend Metropolitan of Ilia, Mr. Athanasios II, who is accompanied by the Protosygello Fr. Filaretos Spanopoulos, with a 20-member choir of Clergy and 280 Pilgrims. The Seventh Pastor, having special concern for the Spiritual strengthening of God's people, instituted these Sacred Pilgrimages to be carried out annually, as another expression of his Pastoral Ministry, with the aim of cultivating the Ecclesiastical consciousness, strengthening the Spiritual life of the faithful, but also highlighting Religious and Pilgrimage Tourism, which is an important means of getting to know the Holy places, the History and Tradition of our Orthodox Church.

The first stop of this blessed journey was the Holy Monastery of Agios Ioannis the Theologian Sourotis, where the Pilgrims had the special blessing of visiting the Tomb of Agios Paisios the Saint. In front of this Holy place, where a great contemporary Saint of our Church rests, the Clergy and the Pilgrims...