A great celebration for Greece and Orthodoxy is April 29, a day of celebration of the Living Source.
According to ekklisia Online, it is one of the newest festivals of Orthodox Christianity, which was established in the 19th century, as the anniversary of the inauguration of the new church and chapel in honor of Panagia Zoodochou Pigi in Valoukli or Baloukli of Constantinople.
Zoodohos Pigi is an adjective of the Virgin Mary as the mother of Christ.
This day is celebrated by Zois, Zoi, Zisis, Zisimos and Pigi.
According to tradition, there was a miraculous spring outside the walls of Constantinople to the gate of Silivria (now Baloukli, from the small fish that were in the spring, baluk= fish in Turkish).
In 474 the Byzantine emperor Leo Thrax erected in honor of the Virgin a beautiful temple near the spring, the thermal water of which had cured many patients, mainly from abscesses, dysuria and bleeding.
It is rumored that among the recovered patients was the emperor Justinian, who suffered from dysuria, and to honor the Virgin Mary built the monastery of Zoodochos Pigi from the building materials left over from the construction of Hagia Sophia.
In the following years, the buildings of the temple and the monastery of Zoodochos Pigi suffered great damage from enemy raids and earthquakes. They suffered the greatest damage during the Turkish occupation, when they were demolished and their building materials were used to build the mosque of Sultan Bayazit. The Christians of Constantinople did not stop visiting the ruins of the temple of Zoodochos Pigi, to perform services, especially on the Friday of Diakainisimos and to seek the miraculous thermal water.
In 1833 the patriarch Constantius I succeeded in obtaining permission to rebuild the temple from Sultan Mahmut II.
The inauguration of the new church took place on February 2, 1835 by Patriarch Constantius II. In the following years, temples dedicated to Zoodochos Pigi were founded in many cities of Orthodox Christianity, with the most famous one in Athens, located on Akadimias Street.
With information from: Ekklhsia Online, Wikipedia
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