The testimony of Efstathios Zach. Ancient, about the liturgies that took place until 1940, every four years, in Lassithi plateauin order to fruiting the earth, Mr. Manolis Ancient sent to cretalive.

Note that the Efstathios archaic He was born on July 11, 1903 in the village of Ag. Konstantinos Lasithiou and in an interview in 1993, in his 90s, he said:

“One thing I remember is the four -year liturgies that took place until 1940, with the aim of fruitful of earth. The time that took place was a opening when the seeds had the need for water. The Workshop.

1st day. On the morning of the first day there was a Divine Liturgy in the I. Crustalenia Monastery and then the monks with the images in the hands were heading to the village of Agios Konstantinos, accompanied by the Christians. In front they always went to the widespread, the cross, the banners and the children with the rowed candles. They were arriving in the village of Ag. A Divine Liturgy was performed by the Hierarchs, and the faithful took some images from the temple, the worse, the cross and the banners and continued to the villages in Lasithi, Marmaka. In the previous villages there were a Th.

2nd day. In the morning there was a Divine Liturgy in Jermiado from where the procession continued the prayers and prayers for the next villages of Lagos, Pinakiano. After the village of it, the sea of ​​the faith, he met on the road leading to Heraklion, the icon of Our Lady of Keris, which was brought by the Christians from the same name. After the meeting they were heading to IM Vidianis, Kato Metochi, Holy Charalambos, back and cold, where they performed all over and all of the images.

3rd day. In the morning, the procession erupted after the end of the Divine Liturgy and continued the dedication of the villages in the villages of Magoula, Kaminaki, Avrakonte, Ag. George and then to Saint John in the plain. The last Divine Liturgy of the three -day prayer, that is to say, were performed.

Immediately afterwards, a cistern in the courtyard of Ag. Ioannou to get all the participants in the liturgy. After the sake of each parish was cut off by the Great Phalanx and the responsible priest he took the road along with his pilgrims, to return to the village where he was.

I remember, continues Mr Evathios that the faith of the then clergy and lay people who followed in the three -day litany was great; The plain of the waterfront to return to their homes to sleep. The fatigue of this by seeing God as well as the unity, the heat of the bonds, was deceived by His mercy immediately. Every time the liturgy took place, it was changing the weather, that is, it was clinging, bullied north and helping to develop the diet. In 1927, it came after the three -day recruitment of the icons, continuously at a time. Certainly the orthodox Christian faith is omnipotent. “

Source: cretalive.gr