The Synaxis of Saint George Karslidis in the Holy Metropolis of Drama
With reverence and due ecclesiastical honour the pious and faithful people of the Holy Metropolis of Drama celebrated the Synaxis of the new Confessor, Saint Georgios Karslidis.
On Friday afternoon, 12 April 2024, the reception of the reliquary of Saint George from the Holy Monastery of the Ascension of the Saviour (Sipsa) took place at the Holy Church of Saint Nicholas in Drama. Then, the service of the 4th Stanza of the Salutations to the Theotokos was chanted by the choir of the Music School of Drama.
On Saturday, 13 April 2024, the Great Vespers of the Feast took place and were officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Timotheos of Thessaliotis and Fanariofersala.
On Sunday, 14 April 2024, the fourth Sunday of Lent, the Synaxis of Saint George the new confessor was celebrated with a Poly-Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, which was presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Damaskinos of Didymoteicho and was joined in concelebration by His Eminence Timotheos of Thessaliotis and Fanariofersala and the local Hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Dorotheos of Drama. Prior to the dismissal of the Liturgy, the Egkomia Hymns of Saint George Karslidis were chanted, and this was followed by a procession of his Holy Relics.
The reliquary of Saint George was accompanied in procession, with ecclesiastical order and splendour, by the priests of the city, the abbess and the nuns of the Holy Monastery of the Ascension of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, civil and military authorities, representatives of local schools and cultural associations and a multitude of believers, who waited patiently to venerate the grace-flowing Holy Relics.
