The feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Nafpaktiatranslated

On Friday and Saturday, August 14 and 15, 2026, the feast of the Dormition and Ascension of the Most Holy Theotokos, Nafpaktia celebrated with a focus on two historic Holy Monasteries. On the eve, Friday August 14, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, Mr. Ierotheos officiated at the solemn Vespers, which was held in the historic Byzantine Church (10th century) of the dissolved Holy Monastery of Panagia Panaxiotissa. The Holy Church of Panaxiotissa is one of the most important Byzantine monuments of Aitoloakarnania and dates back to the 10th AD. century. It is located between the villages of Gavrolimni and Trikorfos and is surrounded by olive groves. It is a typical example of the architectural type of the cruciform inscribed with a dome. At Vespers, along with His Holiness, the Priests, Archim. Fr. Polykarpos Theofanis, Priest, Fr. Christos Panoutsos and the Deacon Fr. Before the end of Vespers, Artoklasia was held in the courtyard of the Church, where the Praises of the Virgin Mary were also sung.

In his sermon, His Holiness said that all the theology of the Church passed into the hymnography and the ecclesiastical...