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Monday, February 22, 2010

The Recent Discovery Of The Relics Of Saint Kyranna The New Martyr Of Ossa

The Recent Discovery Of The Relics Of Saint Kyranna The New Martyr Of Ossa
Municipality John of Lagada and Exarch of Important Macedonia has called 2011 "the engagement of Saint Kyranna", which was inaugurated on the feast of the Saint on 8 January 2011. The hub of the festivities has been in the conclusion of Ossa, shut up shop Thessaloniki, someplace the Saint lived and someplace a distinguished church exists in her belief. To read about the life and martyrdom of Saint Kyranna, see in the sphere of.

Jiffy the strong and martyric death of the whole Saint Kyranna on 28 February 1751, the plug took her dearest remainder and had her unseen outdoor the metropolitan of Thessaloniki. At the exceptionally time portions of her clothes were cut here pieces and given to the plug as remainder for a blessing. The people of the conclusion of Ossa had a church built in the conclusion in her belief a few decades as this to-do and Christoforos Prodromitis had a Jaunt of Medal on paper to be chanted on the annual recollection of her martyrdom. Her life was recorded by St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite in his "New Martyrology".

So St. Kyranna was martyred fashionable the time of Turkish graft, the perfectly thing that was set about the background of her remainder was that they were unseen "outdoor the masonry" of Thessaloniki. 260 living later St. Kyranna allowed the background of her remainder to be bare to the people who have valued her link all this time. This all began to the same extent Municipality John of Lagada inaugurated 2011 as the engagement of Saint Kyranna, and he began to scratch her life in manifold sources. Therefore on 12 September 2011, with the help of a holy man from Grow quickly Athos and the altruism of specialists and forensic experts, they certain that in the Ceremonial Altar of the Cathedral of the Archangels in Ossa, someplace St. Kyranna herself attended the Lovely Liturgy, beneath the view slabs a wide element of her remainder were bare.

Any questions generated by the review of the majority of the Saint were absolutely put state to the same extent a eye-catching toilet water sated the church to the same extent the remainder of the Saint were outdoor. Subsequent to her bones stage were too the skin shoes of the Saint, and forensic experts were capable to appraise the height, sex, age and engagement of income of the Saint. Jiffy this immense discovery, Municipality John notified Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, hence proceeded to have the collective experienced honest a certified observe.

On Friday 23 September 2011 in an vent of fit and keenness, the plug of Ossa and the roughly scrap gathered in the Cathedral of the Archangels to praise the ruler all-night vigil with the phantom of the remainder of their humanitarian saint. Municipality John was the officiant together with Bishop Demetrios of Thermes and a wide concern of priests from the Metropolis. The celebration will track until October 10th with piece Petition Services and all-night vigils, and will handy on October 11th to the same extent Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will go to regularly the conclusion and pay homage to the remainder of St. Kyranna. At that time too the remainder of St. Kyranna will be translated from the Cathedral of the Archangels to the newer church devoted to her generous link.