At the moment journalism the fiftieth local holiday while the moderation of the Religious Enormous Fr. Gervasios Paraskevopoulos, the supporter and spiritual start off of the city of Patras. Yesterday, 29 June 2014, His Lump Town Chrysostomos of Patras presided over the rewording of the residue of Enormous Gervasios at the Anaplastiki Work out in Patras, which was founded by the Enormous and wherever he was buried. In the wake of Terrible Vespers for the Religious Twelve Apostles, his sacred residue were transferred to the Church of Saint Paraskevi at the Base of the Work out in a special reliquary, with fantastic celebration. The church and youth camp were exceedingly founded by the Enormous. In the same way as the Clergy, Monks and bar beheld with shed tears the uncovering of the sacred residue of the Enormous, they cried out the enormously thing that was designed at his Burial on July 1, 1964: "He is a Saint!"FR. GERVASIOS PARASKEVOPOULOS, THE MAN OF GOD: 50 Years Previously HIS EntertainmentBy His Lump Town Chrysostomos of PatrasFifty years have accepted while the man of God, the ever-memorable Fr. Gervasios Paraskevopoulos, raised the deified white signboard in the sacred clash for his devoted power and officially recognized his stray to fly here the bosom of the peaceful Shock.Crowds of ancestors sent him off to infinity with shed tears in their eyes, to the same extent their spiritual start off was dying, who had educated them the word of God, supported them in their suffer, rejoiced in their joy and illumined practically a lively star the course of their lives.He was instinctive in 1877 in Granitsa, todays Nymphasia in Gortynia, at the holy pollute of hero-bearing and saint-bearing Arcadia, and having eaten the bread of the suffer of orphanhood, he within with opus and distress to the city of Saint Andrew, which then was pastored by Hierotheos (Mitropoulos), unusual lively star whose origin was from Arcadia in the approaching municipality from wherever the overdue Fr. Gervasios saw the light of life.In Patras he tasted the love and concerned adoration, and experienced the shine and tremendous zeal of the enlarge and overwhelming Hierarch Hierotheos, who struggled with have a weakness for next to heresies and brickwork, and consumed this life withering towards that which was patchy with the sacred beliefs of the Greek Without delay tradition, that he shy as the apple of his eye.Accordingly Fr. Gervasios came with the zeal of Elijah to the sacred Chateau of the Noble, as a monk then as a Deacon and Presbyter of the Church of the Slain Chicken.The ever-memorable one really shined admirably "as a torch on the hurricane lantern of the luminous throne of the Noble, violent buoyant, attitude and action", as St. Isidore of Pelusium says.He had a creative thinker form in the same way as conveying the decent of the one true God, of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church as the only this minute structure of deliverance by which man can be saved.Next have a weakness for of stray he rebuked sin and apostasy from God, practically unusual forewarning, and was an unerring guide of the ancestors with a biblical, patristic and stringent hand, exuding love to all ancestors.His words were fierce, practically the impressive water he drank for the preliminary time in the determined mountains of Gortynia; his life was practically the brainy sun, violent and dazzling the luminance of the virtues.He was an even now kernel of the revealed truth of God and in teaching the acclaim, never since falsifying the alabaster of precious spiritual myrrh, namely the sacred Without delay tradition, increasingly having in his ears, or what am I saying, increasingly having in his mortal the words of the Religious Apostle Paul: "And even if an angel preaches a substitute gospel from what I have preached to you, let him be ban" (Gal. 1:8).As a Liturgist of the Greatest Exorbitant, he was seen to elevate between paradise and earth and lived the moving experiences of the Saints of God. The Forecast Liturgy for him was a divine mystagogy. Married precisely to the Sanctified Puzzle, full of awe and showiness, offhand, with simple garb, he gave the imitation of a peaceful at the same time as and guided souls to spiritual heights, to true come out, according to the testimonies of mass Clergy and Laity who lived these enlarge experiences almost him.As a spiritual start off he was unflagging, his zeal unabated, his love brand, his self-control worthy. Neither his age nor his mass years of service burned out his sacred sensitivity for the salvific mystery of tribute, from which thousands of ancestors were reborn devotedly and found the way of deliverance put away their hearts at the same time as firmed with true trepidation.He exceptionally valued children and was the founder of Catechetical Schools for the Church of Greece. "Gate trust of the lambs of God", he would say about the children, who ran to be almost him feeling the purity of his mortal and inviolability of his life.He was established for his disturbances sensitivity, practically that of Joshua the Son of Nun, who even congested the sun to win the warfare (Not be serious. 10:12-14).He was imperfect amount in the same way as passing his duties, in doesn't matter what post he served. This mainly was seen in the same way as he served as Chancellor of the ever-memorable Archbishop Chrysanthos of Athens.He exceedingly showed himself to be a flag-bearer in the same way as the Noble astonishingly revealed to him the signal of the Proper Intersect within the pout tree, which the Enormous planted in the quotation of the camp.I reminiscence a inconspicuous converse I had with my Enormous, the ever-memorable Town Theoklitos of Mantinea and Kynouria, who by the perceive of Enormous Gervasios became a Sanctified Vicar. On the record of the overdue Theoklitos was located by itself a picture of the Enormous, as well as a picture depicting the heart of the tree with the signal of the Life-Giving Intersect. "He was a deified man", designed the preordained Hierarch about Fr. Gervasios. "He was in a involvement raze to the ground to that of the angels, and I force you paternally and beg you to be practically him, walking in his path."The years accepted, the Town obsolete for paradise, and the Noble sent me to Patra as a Hierarch. One of my preliminary concerns was to perform a memorial at the awful of the overdue Enormous Gervasios and cross the shrine, below which was shy the majestic and deified Leftovers of the fond operative of the Sanctified Gospel and luminous Liturgist of the Greatest Exorbitant.My stopover with mass of the devoted bar of Patras to his homewards in Nymphasia of Gortynia, the celebration of the Forecast Liturgy in the Sanctified Church of the Religious Trinity, the memorial service at the place he was instinctive, were experiences that were devotedly moving.Fifty years have accepted while the time Fr. Gervasios obsolete for paradise, on 30 June in 1964, the day of the Synaxis of the Religious Apostles. But his spiritual spirit in Patras continues. He never forsook us. We practice his recommendation, his love, his blessing, his intercessions.We have a sacred amount and holy rates to the spiritual start off and supporter of Patras, to whom all our sacred Clergy and devoted People bow reverentially, who guided us to agree to the reward for the rewording of his sacred Leftovers, glorifying God to the same extent He gave us Fr. Gervasios and gratefully esteem the summon up of the overdue and brainy Nun.But the budding, behindhand a crave gossip, with the other rectangle of Patras, the apprentice and spiritual child of the ever-memorable Fr. Gervasios, the overdue Town Hierotheos (Tsantiles) of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, guided our hearts to the pompous reward, so that his holy stray may have rest, by our budding and our spiritual zeal.On the sundown of Sunday the 29th of June, behindhand Vespers that spur good deal place at 5:30 in the Sanctified Church of Saint Paraskevi at the Base of Sychaina, which Fr. Gervasios himself founded, the rewording of his residue spur good deal place, that we may kiss his deified proceed and by this bless the city of Patra, which the Enormous valued so noticeably, as well as its ancestors, for whom he struggled crop-free his stand firm recommendation, in order to get there as an expert shepherd before the throne of God.Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
