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Ierissou Theoklitos: Today's Christianity refuses to taste the bitterness of the despisedtranslated

July 30, 2026 · 1 min read

On the 26th of July, our Church honors the memory of the Osiomegaloparthenomartyr Paraskevi, originally from Rome, who around the end of the 2nd century AD. beheaded her in favor of Christ of God, I testified during the times of the Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. Laophilis Agia, due to both her monastic character and her firm preaching about the God-humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, has been honored by the Christ-eponymous Pleroma for centuries and her memory grows day by day. After all, the People of God consider her a great protector of the vision of the human organism, She who protects and heals our physical eyes, because of the miracle she performed on the Emperor Antoninus, when she healed his eyes, giving him again the light he lost by imposing on Osia a horrible martyrdom in a cauldron with boiling tar and oil.

So on the Eve of the Feast, Saturday 26th July 2026, at 7:30 in the afternoon, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Ierissos, Mount Athos and Ardameri, Mr. THEOKLITOS, visited the celebrating Parish of Agia Paraskevi Kato Stavrou, where the chosen and pure Levite Rev. p.…

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