Feast day of Demetrios the Myrrh-streamer & Great Martyr of Thessaloniki today

The Church today venerates the memory of Demetrios the Myrrh-streamer & Great Martyr of Thessaloniki.

On the occasion, the Pemptousia platform has posted a several programs and features on the Glorious Martyr St. Demetrios, available on the live broadcast and the on-demand feature, on the site www.pemptousia.tv

The great feast day was celebrated throughout the Orthodox world in a solemn and splendorous manner, with the northern Greece metropolis again being the epicenter.

Every Oct. 26 Thessaloniki celebrates its patron saint and protector, as well as the annual anniversary of its liberation from centuries of dour Ottoman rule, as on the day in 1912, the Greek army victoriously entered the city during the first Balkan War.

An archieratical Divine Liturgy was held in the morning at the historic Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Demetrios, officiated by the resident Metropolitan, His Holiness Anthimos, and co-officiated by the representative of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, Metropolitan of Neapoli and Stavroupoli, His Eminence Barnaba.

A Doxology service followed, commemorating the liberation of the city, held in the presence of Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and local office-holders.

photos :Raphael  Georgiadis

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