The 80th anniversary of NO was celebrated in Mykonos with due honor
The feast of the Holy Roof of the Most Holy Theotokos and the National Feast of October 28 were celebrated solemnly and solemnly. 1940 in Ano Mera, Mykonos, focusing on the celebrations at I.M.. Panagia Tourliani………
The nickname day, The procession of Orthros and the Divine Liturgy of a priest of the Most Venerable Archimandrite. Alexiou Papadopoulos with the prayerful presence of philanthropic Mykonos believers.
The feast of Agia Skepi is a feast of the Mother of God and is celebrated on 28 .Κτωβρίου, along with our national holiday, instead of October 1st, which had long been established to be celebrated.
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The Holy Roof is the Grace and the protection of the Virgin Mary. It was named Agia Skepi from a vision seen by Saint Andreas at the Temple of the Blachernas in Constantinople during the Vigil (The Virgin Mary covered with a veil the faithful who attended the Divine Liturgy).
Appearances of the Holy Roof were also made in the Albanian Mountains during the war 1940, where many of these soldiers once saw her alive covering them and protecting them from bullets and bombs, others and as a cloud to hide them so that they are not perceived by the enemy.
So it was established to celebrate her 28 October, as a remembrance of the Divine Protection of the Virgin Mary.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, a solemn Doxology was performed on the National Holiday of 1940. The Region of South Aegean was represented by the Authorized Councilor of Cyclades Culture Stelios Briggos and honored by the presence of the leader of the Major Opposition of the Municipality of Mykonos Christos Veronis, the President of the Local Community Petros Stavrakopoulos and the Municipal Councilor and President of DEYAM Francescos Vigliaris while, The solemnity of the day was delivered by the Most Venerable Archimandrite Fr. Alexios Papadopoulos.
The speech in detail
In the life of nations, are some dates that literally judge nations and peoples, try and check their historical identity cards. For us Greeks, such days are Salamis, Marathon, the 25th of March, the 28th of October…. In essence, it is always the same day with a different name. It is the day that returns in our life and history with another "costume", but with the same content.
The historical chain of the struggles of Hellenism is endless. Their message is universal. The great battles of the Greeks belong to the world community, go beyond the narrow geographical boundaries of our country after , as the great Elytis writes, "Greeks in the dark show the way everywhere" . The Greeks, the poet continues, make the dream beat faster in the blood, always show then and now the world at the right time, the fight for freedom.
In the mountains of Epirus and Albania, in the mountains of Northern Greece, Hellenism met once again with its historical debt. His fighters 40 they danced the dance to the rhythms of history. They heard from far away, from the depths of Greek history, the song of Leonidas' warriors in Thermopylae, Themistocles and Demosthenes listened, they were enchanted by the voice of Rigas, were excited by the invitation of Kolokotronis, were troubled by the thought of Makrygiannis….
There in the mountains of Epirus, the Greeks made another bloody date with their story, with their historical destiny, which calls on them in difficult times to exceed their national potential. To exceed their limits. To go against the times. To be sacrificed in a lasting sacrifice, performing an unrecognized debt to humanity
But how and why the disorganized and poorly equipped Greek army, how and why the Greek people, plundered and divided by the dictatorship, wrote such an epic;
The answer is given by the author Angelos Terzakis: " In the forehead, across the line, from the blue sea of the Ionian Sea up to the icy Prespes, the Greek army was beginning to see the same vision everywhere: At night he saw a female figure leading tall, lightly walked, with her cap hanging from her head to her shoulders. He recognized her, he had known her for a long time, they had sung it to him when he was a baby and he was dreaming in the crib. She was the mother of magnanimity in pain and glory, taken from Tinos, the militant general "…
The received Virgin, by the enemies who fall! The Virgin of Tinia, the signature of God for the freedom of Greece, the only guarantee for the freedom of Greece.
All the great moments of the modern history of our Nation are connected with the Virgin of Tinos, the Blessed, Nikopio, the Fighting General…
Its explosion 1821 is marked by the Finding of the Holy Icon of Her Annunciation, which the struggling Nation effortlessly translates as a visible sign of divine favor and maternal protection..
His epic 1940 interpreted through the desecration of Her Assumption;
The fraudulent, a cowardly and blasphemous attack on the port of our celebrated island struck every orthodox Greek soul in its sensitive point: insulted his Mother, cursed Her Name, respected Her memory…
That's why the smile on the lips, the flame in the heart, the wings on the feet of the Greeks! They fought unrestrained, tireless, in the snow because they fought first and foremost for their Mother, the Virgin…
That is why they generously offered their lives, in an event of unique and unrepeatable solidarity.
My dear,
unfortunately, for the first time since 1944, when the first h 28the October and from 1952, when the Church of Greece decided to move the feast of the Holy Roof of the Virgin Mary from October 1 to 28 October, on the grounds that the Virgin Mary helped the Greek Army in the pro-faith and patriotic war in the snow-capped mountains of Pindos and the Northern Epirus, for the first time, repeat, This year, this National Anniversary is not celebrated in Ano Mera, with the established Doxology and the presence of the local Authorities.
Our Fathers did not count death!
Their children, Nevertheless, they seem to be panicking over the famous coronavirus and out of fear they are sacrificing their debt to those who were sacrificed for the Homeland and freedom!
Does not matter!
Even without them, October 28 will always remain a living force and a great chapter in the history of the Greek nation. It is our duty and duty to remember the sacrifices of our ancestors and to build today and tomorrow on them, always honoring the saints and sanctuaries of our people., our faith in Christ and our love for the Homeland, worthy descendants of heroes and martyrs!
Long live our Greece!
Long live Ano Mera!
Happy birthday and heroic
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