Engrossing hymn for the Transfiguration of the Savior, in the church of the same name in Plakatranslated

Written by Panos N. Avramopoulos

With deep rapture, pure lyricism, but also the participation of a large number of people from the historical area of Plaka and the center of Athens, today Thursday 6-8-2026, in the beautiful and historically significant Church of the Transfiguration Sotiros Plakas, at the junction of Kydathinaion and Sotiros streets, the solemn vespers took place for tomorrow's feast of the Transfiguration of Savior. In a church that shines with the spiritual light and the cultural gloom of orthodoxy, given that Archbishop Damascenes served as a deacon in it, while the declared saint, Pope Nikolaos Planas, was ordained as a deacon. But it is also innate with the magnificence of Greek letters, since a little before the church on Kydathinaion Street, there is the home of our ecumenical poet Giorgos Seferis and the son-in-law of the president of the Republic and giant of philosophy, Kostakis Tsatsos. In other words, the transfiguration of our Lord was celebrated, which is one of the leading holidays of Orthodoxy.

That is, the first manifest expression of the divine physiognomy of Jesus. According to the New Testament, the Lord had visited with his disciples Peter, John and James, to pray the...