Metropolitan of Piraeus: "Our times are bad"translated

In the Metropolitan Church of Saints Constantine and Helen of Piraeus, yesterday Sunday July 5, 2026, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Piraeus, Mr. Seraphim, officiated, a day on which the Church commemorates the Synod of the Most Holy Theotokos of the invoked "Tricherous", a holy copy of which he has adorned and blessed for 13 years our local Church. During his sermon, initially, His Holiness referred to the special blessing that the city of Piraeus has received and recalling two miraculous incidents, he emphasized that Our Lady has practically demonstrated Her maternal protection towards our city.

"We are truly blessed and blessed by God, because we live in a city of Panagioskepasti", noted His Eminence, referring to the fact of finding the miraculous Holy Icon of the Virgin "Rodon the Amaranth" on the rocks of Piraeus in 1895, a fact which, as he said, was connected to the miraculous liberation of the city from the terrible smallpox epidemic, as well as the event of the appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Holy Church of Evangelistria, Piraeus, on the evening of March 24-25, 1929, where the miracle "of the holy...