The great feast day of the Theotokos of the Life-giving Spring was again solemnly commemorated at the rock-hewn monastery of St. Eleousa, built above the narrow Klisoura gorge, one of the most picturesque sites in all of Aetoloakarnania prefecture.
The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios, His Eminence Ierotheos, the locum tenens of the Holy Metropolis of Aetolia and Akarnania, on Bright Thursday officiated at the con-celebratory Vesper.
In the northwest city of Arta, the Metropolitan of Arta, His Eminence Kallinikos, officiated at the Great Vesper service at the celebrating Life-giving Spring Cathedral in the village of Sykies on Thursday afternoon. A litany of the Holy Icon of the Theotokos, the All-Virgin Mary, followed.
