An Aivalio festival in Mytilene – From Panagia of Faneromeni of Aivali to Mytilene Panagia of Proviadainatranslated

On Ermou Street in Mytilinia, on the way to Epano Skala, just before the Yeni Mosque, an alley on the right of the street with the characteristic name "Maiandros Street" leads to a stone-paved worm that leads to Pergamou Street, beyond the other beautiful alleys of Kulbara, the old Kirkinetsi mahalla.

However, at the beginning of Maiandrou Street, a few meters from Ermou, if instead of turning right, you turn left, a dead-end alley leads you to a beautiful chapel. Panagia Faneromeni or Panagia Proviadaina. The stories get mixed up, the cults get mixed up, a Virgin Mary with Christ in her arms playing with a topi on the earth or a Virgin Mary with a flower on her breast. The pain of the people, the refugee, the evil that must be exorcised.

In a festival that few people know about anymore and that too has shrunk to a religious ceremony. With nothing behind her…

On May 27, 1821, in the bay of Eresou, Papanikolis set fire to the Ottoman dikrot. The arson gives rise to the massacre of Mytilene Christians, known as the "Great Zulu". According to the Code of the Metropolis of Mytilene, on Thursday, May 27, 1821, 43 Christians were slaughtered in the market of Mytilene and looted...