Feast of Prophet Heliostranslated

During the feast of the holy glorious Prophet Helios of Thesvitos, our Reverend Metropolitan Mr. Amfilochios presided over the holy festival at the holy pilgrimage of the Holy Forerunner (Damialis), in whose iconostasis an Image of the Prophet Helios, in marble by the well-known Kissamite iconographer John Annousaki (1896), where the holy memory of this great Prophet has been established and celebrated with the participation of many believers from the wider region.

Our Bishop, referring to the "second Forerunner of the presence of Christ", as his Apolytikio calls the Prophet Elias, noted: "From the depths of history and the centuries, 800 years before the coming of Christ into the world, he projects the holy face of the great, the foremost of the Prophets, Helios of Thesbitos, who is not only presented in the Old Testament, but also in the New Testament, as we meet him on Mount Tabor, during the great feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord, as we will hear in a few weeks the Evangelist Matthew describing to us the event of the Divine Transfiguration. Paradox to honor a person after almost three millennia, since this person left no written texts or speeches, like others...