The evening of M. Saturday with a special Olympic Air flight, to areas of the Aegean, which landed a few minutes after the 9 the resurrected Agios Fos arrived at the airport from Athens……..
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Aircraft arrival
At the airport, in a moving but also exciting Resurrection Climate, the Holy Light was welcomed by the High Priestly commissioner of Mykonos Protopresbyteros Fr. Basil Tzanidakis,…
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Reception of Holy Light
……then in the arrival hall of the airport he handed over the Holy Light to the faithful, to the vicar of Agia Kyriaki, Archpriest Emmanuel Galanakis and Deacon George of the Metropolitan Church of the Great Virgin for the Resurrection ceremony.
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Tradition of Holy Light
Present at the welcoming ceremony was the Mayor of Mykonos Ms
Irini Gryparis, the Vice President of the Regional Council and
Candidate Mayor Mr. Konstantinos Koukas, the stateswoman of the Cyclades with
N.D and candidate Regional Councilor Mrs. Katerina Monogyiou o
Police Commander Mr. Nikolaos Lagogiannis, the Harbor Master Mr.
Agesilaos Manis, representatives of the Police and the Coast Guard and
pious Myconians.
Irini Gryparis, the Vice President of the Regional Council and
Candidate Mayor Mr. Konstantinos Koukas, the stateswoman of the Cyclades with
N.D and candidate Regional Councilor Mrs. Katerina Monogyiou o
Police Commander Mr. Nikolaos Lagogiannis, the Harbor Master Mr.
Agesilaos Manis, representatives of the Police and the Coast Guard and
pious Myconians.
The custom of transporting the Holy Light by plane from Jerusalem to Athens began in 1988 on the initiative of a travel agency. This particular travel agency continued to bring the Holy Light to Athens every year, up to and including 2002. Since then this custom was undertaken to continue by the sub. Foreign, which from the 2003 to this day it carries the Holy Light.
Happy Resurrection and Happy Easter.
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