The feast of Agia Makrini in the Holy Monastery of Ligovitsitranslated

The holy memory of our Blessed and God-bearing Mother Makrina, sister of Basil the Great, was celebrated with special splendor on Sunday, July 19, 2026, in the women's Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos Ligovitsios Xiromeros. On this day, the abbess of the Holy Monastery, Gerontissa Makrina, leads her nomenclature. The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Mr. Damaskinos, presided over the procession of Orthros and the solemn high-priestly Divine Liturgy, and the Protopr. Spyridon Raptis, Cleric of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, with other Clerics from the Holy Archdiocese, the Protopr. Dimitrios Papagiannis, Cleric of the Holy Metropolis of Piraeus, the Protopr. Leonidas Raptis, Fr. Lambros Papaspyros and other Clergy of the Holy Metropolis of Aetolia and Akarnania, as well as Archdeacon Dimitrios Lagoudis and Hierodeacon Bartholomaios Kosmas.

Among the many pilgrims who came to the Holy Monastery to participate in the Divine Liturgy and honor the celebratory Gerontissa was the Mayor of Xiromero, Mr. Ioannis Triantafyllakis.

Preaching the divine word, His Holiness continued the series of his Sunday sermons, in which he analyzes the...