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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ On June 2, 1952, the weekly independent newspaper of the Prefecture of Serres, entitled "National Alert", appeared. This newspaper was an important addition to the local press, with Yiannis Ep. Gritzalis as owner and director. The first sheet of the newspaper was a four-page spread, while the following were published in two-page spreads, with each page measuring 40x58 centimeters. The price of each sheet was set at 1000 drachmas, a price that reflected the era. The printing of the newspaper took place at the printing press of Efstratios Charalambidis, which was located in the Municipal Gallery. The newspaper's offices were located inside the travel agency of its owner, at Vasileos Alexandrou street number 3, which indicates the versatility and entrepreneurship of Gritzalis. The publication of "National Alert" contributed to the information and up-to-date of the residents of the Prefecture of Serres, presenting local issues and news with an independent a...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ On June 2, 1953, huge floods hit areas of Serres causing extensive damage. The floods affected all of Greece, from the Evros to the Peloponnese. In Serres, the torrential waters of the torrents carried large amounts of mud, covering large areas and destroying crops, infrastructure and homes. These floods were one of the most serious natural disasters in the region, underscoring the region's vulnerability to extreme weather events and the need for effective flood control measures.

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Fotini G. Karamanli, the mother of the former President of the Hellenic Republic Constantinos Karamanli, died in Athens on June 2, 1940, a few months before the declaration of the Greco-Italian war, which began on October 28, 1940.

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Saint Constantine came from the village of Ypsilometopos in Mytilene from Muslim parents. He was hanged by the Turks on June 2, 1819 in Constantinople. Saint Constantine came from Muslim parents and was born in the village of Psilometopos in Mytilene. Together with his mother and siblings, he came to Magnesia and later to Smyrna, where he helped his siblings in the fruit shop, taking to the homes of the nobles what they bought from their shop. At the age of fifteen he was poisoned by a Turkala and was blind and bedridden for three years. But he was cured when he washed in a holy water, as a Christian suggested to his mother. But going often to the Metropolis of Smyrna, he listened and learned the Greek language and the Christian religion. So he left for Mount Athos, but no one would accept him. Then the exiled Patriarch Gregory V (see April 10) in M. Lavra, after testing him, baptized him as a Christian in Kausokalyvia, with the name Konstantinos. St. Constantine, in the Skete...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Τοῦ Πατριάρχου Πατριάρχης πλησίον, Θείου γέροντος, Ἀβραὰμ Νικηφόρος. Δευτερίῃ Νικηφόρος εἰς Ἐδὲμ εὕρατο μοίρην. Saint Nikephoros (Nikiforos) was born in Constantinople in 758 AD. His parents Theodoros and Eudokia belonged to an aristocratic and official social class but were pious and virtuous people who nurtured their son with the threads of the Holy Scriptures. In fact, his father's commitment to the right faith caused him to be persecuted and exiled by the iconoclastic and ungodly emperor Constantine V, Kopronymos to Nicaea, where he died. Gifted with special intellectual abilities, he acquired a great theological and spiritual education. But he quickly retired to an estate on the Bosphorus, where he devoted himself to exercise and the study of the Holy Scriptures. But the emperor obliged him to take over the management of the great almshouse in Constantinople. When Tarasios, the Patriarch of Constantinople, fell asleep, the emperor Nikephoros I nominated Nikephoros as ...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Samaritan Sunday is special for the Ecumenical Patriarchate, as it is the feast of the "synaxis" for the memory of "all our Holy Fathers, Archbishops and Patriarchs of Constantinople". This feast was instituted by the current Patriarch Bartholomew I upon his election in 1991. On October 24, 1991, the Patriarch proposed to the Endimousa Synod the establishment of a common feast for all his predecessors, from the Apostle Andreas and the first bishop Stachy (38 -54 AD) to Patriarch Cyril VI (1813-1818 AD), who was hanged in 1821. Patriarch Bartholomew emphasized the importance of the holiday, saying that "we will have the opportunity to invoke their grace and intercession to the Lord in favor of the Mother Church and in favor of us". The Holy and Holy Synod, on November 19, 1991, decided to establish the holiday, which has since been officially celebrated in the Patriarchal Church of Saint George the Trophy-bearer with a Patriarchal and Synodal Litur...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Ὕδωρ λαβεῖν ἐλθοῦσα τὸ φθαρτὸν γύναι, Τὸ ζῶν ἀπαντλεῖς, ᾧ ῥύπους ψυχῆς πλύνεις. The Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John. John 4:4–42 relates her conversation with Jesus at Jacob's Well near the city of Sychar Biblical account. The woman appears in NRSV: Now when the Lord knew that the pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed to Galilee. He had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink ...