Didymoteichus Damascene on the Greek-Bulgarian bordertranslated

At the beginning of the month of August, the Venerable Metropolitan of Didymoteicho, Orestia and Soufli, Mr. Damasquinos, visited the small parish of Therapaio, the former Municipality of Trigonos, on the north bank of the river Arda, on the Greek-Bulgarian border, and officiated on the first of the month in the old church of the settlement of the Assumption, which is three-aisled basilica built of stone and its reconstruction was completed in 1895. After the end of the Divine Liturgy, which was attended by the Commander of the XVI Division, Lt. Gen. Pand. Vassiliadis, the Commander of the 21st Regiment, colonel George. Zachos, the Deputy Mayor of Trigonos-Kyprinos Manolis Hatzipanagiotou, the President of the Union of Retired Officers of North Evros Vas. Vairamidis and members of the Union as well as the few residents of the settlement celebrated Trisagio in memory of the fallen Christians of the settlement.

Afterwards, His Eminence, accompanied by the Commander of the XVI Division and the Commander of the 21st Regiment, visited the abandoned settlement of Gialia, right on the Greek-Bulgarian border. The raging vegetation has visually obliterated the traces of the village and its ruins only faintly...