Kalamata welcomed the Holy Icon of Panagia Dimiovitissatranslated

As every year, this year too, on the evening of Thursday, September 3, 2026, the Holy Clergy, the local authorities and the pious people of Kalamata, led by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Messinia, Mr. Chrysostomos, received the Holy and Miraculous Icon of Panagia Demiovitissa, from the homonymous Holy Monastery of Taygetos, and it was deposited in the Holy Church of the Birth of the Virgin Giannitsanika, where he will remain for the established ten-day pilgrimage. The Mayor of Kalamata Mr. Athan attended the reception. Vassilopoulos, the Deputy Governors Mrs. Maria Economakou and Mr. Efst. Anastasopoulos, members of the Dim. Council of Kalamata and the Regional Council of Peloponnese, the Commander of the 9th S.P. Colonel Georgios Charitos and representatives of other local bodies.

After the end of the Vespers Service and the Reception, Rev. The Metropolitan of Messinia, Mr. Chrysostomos, referred to the history of the arrival of the Icon, which has descended for a century now from the Holy Monastery of Dimiovi in ​​the city of Kalamata, "to strengthen us and give us courage in the difficulties of life", as he characteristically said, while he especially thanked the Nuns of the Holy Monastery of Dimiovi, the...