I thought of the chapel in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Constanța, which is dedicated to Patriarch Maximus. When I heard that he was from Pleven, I remembered that the priest said that he was here in 1969, when he came to bless the churches.
55 years, time flies. As I read about Pleven and about 1969, I remembered that in our parish in Larisa there was an elderly woman who told how she attended the liturgy with him in Bulgaria just then. Interestingly, they also built a chapel for him in Romania – he clearly left his mark everywhere.
Yes, that chapel in Saint Nicholas is a beautiful detail. In 1969 Patriarch Maxim actually came to Constanța to consecrate several churches, including the one in Pleven, and the people here still remember the visit. Have you ever been to a service in the chapel dedicated to him?
