Celebrating the National Day of 28th October in Corfu

In the morning, the divine service was performed at the Holy Metropolitan Church of Virgin Mary the Spilaiotissa and Saint Theodora where his Eminence, the Bishop of Corfu, Paxos & Diapontian Islands Mr. Nektarios addressed the congregation and referred to the state roof of the Most Holy Theotokos which always with more love covered our homeland there our homeland. However, the people of that time as well as of the past times were deeply religious and believed in the ideals and values ​​with which the nation and the nation of the Greeks were founded. In similar cases when barbarians besieged the ruling city of Constantinople, Our Lady always hurried to strengthen and cover the Greek race. For this reason, both our fathers and the people of 1940 of our homeland, in the face of the danger of the enemy, which was an unequal struggle, turned to Our Lady and Our Lady responded to the Albanian front that our heroic army was advancing, Our Lady guided them and strengthened them. There are many testimonies about the woman in black hovering over the heads of our heroic soldiers.

So today, gathered in the temples, all Orthodox Christians return thanksgiving to Our Lady and we ask her to strengthen and awaken the modern young Greeks of our homeland, so that by strengthening the faith and the revision of our despised values ​​we can let us gain strength in the life of freedom that our fathers gave us. Those who did not fall for altars and hearths, for faith and homeland, may the Lord God rest them.

After the end of the divine service, a solemn Doxology was performed with the participation of the government representative, the deputies of Corfu, the Regional Governor, the Mayor and the military and educational authorities. The solemn speech of the day was delivered by the professor of the Ionian University Mr. Emmanuel Drakakis. Then the student and military parade took place with the participation of the Corfu Philharmonic.