The small church of Agia Marinis in Nea Smyrni, Larisa celebratedtranslated

A crowd of people gathered at the Holy Chapel of Agia Marina in the area of Nea Smyrni, which belongs to the Holy Church of the Forty Martyrs of Larissa, to honor Agia Marina. It is recalled that this small church, eight kilometers from the center of Larissa, was the only point that the Metropolitan of Larissa could reach during the Turkish occupation. From 1417, when the Ottomans demolished the Holy Church of Agios Achillios, until 1792, when Agios Dionysios the Kalliarch, then Metropolitan of Larissa, rebuilt the Church, precisely because Larissa was the seat of the Ottoman cavalry, the entry and residence of Christians in the city was prohibited.

The only Christian Church that existed in the area of ​​Larissa was the Church of Agia Marina in its old form, as today it has been rebuilt. Great and important Metropolitans of Larissa such as Agios Vissarion, Agios Antonios the New Theologian, Agios Thomas the Gorianite, Agios Neophytos and many others, did not deserve to enter the city of Larisa, but visited the Church where they ministered for the Christian slaves who lived as slaves of the agades in Larisa, but also for the free her around…