Denials of the church are “cleared”: 3 dead on Mount Athos in a month – Tragedy with a priest family in Ilia

The pandemic hit in church circles that devalued science and vaccines is heavy. In the monastery of Agios Pavlos on Mount Athos, the deaths from coronavirus rose to three, with the abbot of the monastery insisting on anti-scientific sermons, while in Ilia a family tragedy is recorded with the death of a priest, his wife and the parents of his wife who lost the battle with the virus.

In the monastery of Agios Pavlos, from which virtually the entire monastic state entered the vortex of the coronavirus in September 2020, according to the website of the newspaper MACEDONIA, three people have died from coronavirus, in less than a month, while the 90-year-old Abbot of the monastery is ill Virgo, known and ardent coronavirus denier and anti-vaccine.

According to information from the monastic state, from the end of November until today, two monks over 70 years old and a layman, a worker, have died from a coronation in the Monastery of Agios Pavlos.

“It simply came to our notice then. “Where it seemed that things were calming down a bit, it shows the magnitude of the problem, how serious it is and that we should not be complacent in the end,” said Elder Bartholomew, Abbot of the Monastery of Esfigmenos on Mount Athos.

The vaccine was not given by a priest and his family in a village of Ilia and unfortunately within a month they passed away. A priest, his mother and his in-laws were struck by the coronavirus, while his wife and four of their five children fell ill.

At the same time, with double Divine Liturgies and telephone appointments, the faithful in Ioannina will celebrate Christmas by decision of Metropolitan Maximos. In fact, believers have already begun to respond positively to the circular he issued.

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