With the bells of the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ the Tirana beating mourning, the popular pilgrimage continues for the second day on the scene of the blessed Hierarch Anastasios.

The faithful, especially young, come with emotion and flowers to bid farewell to their shepherd and everyone remembers the words of hope and love he gave them.

In the Church of the Church, the Vespers and Trisagus were held in the memory of the blessed Anastasios by the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, who, out of the cathedral, spoke warmly about the blessed hierarch.

“The late Archbishop Anastasios has been a great ecclesiastical personality, which has greatly contributed to Orthodoxy in general and especially, here in the country of Albania, which we all know that from ash has highlighted the Church.”

The Patriarch of Jerusalem emphasized, inter alia, that Anastasios contributed to the promotion and rebuilding and restoration of the Orthodox Church, but contributed greatly to the development of the country because his spiritual and ecclesiastical work was extended to the social field and continued:

“The Church of Albania is a living church, which is a beacon of the light of Orthodoxy in a world suffering from confusion, lawlessness and clutter.”

Tomorrow at 11am, the funeral sequence of the Ecumenical Patriarch will be held local time.

Anastasios also made a statement by Archbishop of Cyprus George.

“We pay tribute to a great man of our time, to an enlightened hierarch that led the Church of Albania from ash to the Mesuranima of her glory.

We also remember our great professor at the University of Athens … He was an enlightened man who will miss us. We wish God to give a worthy successor who will continue his work both in this country and to the Pan -Orthodox events »