Kissamos Amfilochios at the festival of the Pilgrimage of Saints Photios and Anikitos in Falasarnatranslated

With the participation of a large number of pilgrims from the wider area, he celebrated the holy pilgrimage of Saints Photios and Anikitos, of Platanos Parish, to the beautiful Falasarna, cavernous Holy Church, built by St. John the Stranger.

The Vespers was officiated by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, Mr. Amfilochios, who in his speech said, among other things:

"On this beautiful August evening we pray, in the spacious courtyards of this holy place of pilgrimage, of Saints Photios and Anikitos. A holy and holy place, a building of St. John the Stranger, which counts more than 1000 years of life and Orthodox witness, sealing the place, the history and the generations of generations that were raised and nurtured in these same courtyards through all the centuries that have passed. We have gathered today persons known to each other, others unknown, of all ages and backgrounds, united by our common origin and our common root. Which one? Our faith in the Holy Triune God. Our common place, without which our life loses its meaning and reason for existence. This faith that resurrected from its ashes, in interspersed times and times, our Genos, this faith that transforms the…