Memorial service for the victims of the Asia Minor disaster at the Holy Church of Panagia Eleousa in Ierapetratranslated

The established Memorial Service for the repose of the victims of the Asia Minor Disaster was performed by Rev. Metropolitan of Ierapytni and Sitia Mr. Kyrillos after the High Priestly Divine Liturgy of Sunday II Luke, October 4, 2026, in the Holy Parish Church of Panagia Eleousa of Ierapetra, where the miraculous icon of Panagia Reisderiana that was brought by the Asia Minor refugees in 1922 is kept. His Eminence officiated at the procession of Orthros and then officiated and performed the established holy memorial service for the repose of the souls of "all those who fought heroically and were martyred for the faith and the country in Asia Minor during the Asia Minor Campaign, who were slaughtered, burnt to death and in any way of our deceased fathers and brothers", as well as the six-month memorial service of Blessed Erginoussa Nikolarakis.

The speech of the day was delivered by Educational and Literary Philologist Mrs. Angeliki Kitsou-Magaraki, who spoke on the topic: "The religiosity of the people of Asia Minor".

As he underlined, for one more autumn the refugee world is lighting the candle of memory for Asia Minor Hellenism. Romeosyn fell to her knees when the city fell, the...