Metropolitan of Piraeus: "Agia Paraskevi became the eternal timeless person who inspires and leads and graces our people".translated

Prior to the Reverend Metropolitan of Piraeus, Mr. Seraphim, the commemoration of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskevi was celebrated with due ecclesiastical splendor yesterday Saturday 25 and today Sunday 26 July 2026, in the celebratory historic and pericallous Holy Temple of our local Church located in the area of Gallipoli in Piraeus, which she "towered the sacrificial love of our fathers, who came driven from the holy lands of Minorasia, from the historical Gallipolis, to the new Gallipolis of the land of Attica, and brought with them their faith, their piety, the treasures that we all enjoy in this Holy Temple", as characteristically His Holiness said during his sermon at the Vespers Service. During the Vespers service, the enthronement ceremony of the Holy Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which depicts the Virgin Mary as the "Width of the Heavens", took place.

In his sermon, His Holiness, referring to the life of Saint Paraskevi, who lived "in the first half of the 2nd century after Christ. In the stony and hard years of the persecutions against our innocent faith", he noted that "she lived the Gospel message as a gift of...