Pilgrimage program. Saint Spyridon and the Churches of Corfu

This program is one of the 4 pilgrimage programs designed with the requests and wishes of the numerous pilgrims who visit our blessed island every year.

Our day will begin with Divine Liturgy, Confession and Communion (for those who need it) in the Church of St. Spyridon of Trimifunt. After communion, receiving prosphora and the end of the liturgy, we will leave for the time of the Church of St. Paul. We will begin our tour of the most important churches of the city.

We will visit with you the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, where particles of his holy relics, the relics of St. Nicholas are stored. Lazarus of the Four-Days, Panteleimon, as well as one of the largest parts of the Cross of the Lord; the Temple of the Blessed Queen Theodora is the Cathedral, where we worship her holy relics and see rare icons; we visit the ancient temple of St. Thomas. Anthony the Great, where before taking the episcopal rank St. Mark of Ephesus served, known for the fact that the only one at the Council of Florence stood in the truth and did not accept the union; The Church of St. John the Forerunner, which has a special mysterious connection with Russia. It contains the icon of the Holy Righteous Warrior Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, the miraculous icon of St. Fanuriy and numerous relics of saints. In addition, he served here as a priest Nikifor Theotokis (θεοτόκης), who later became Archbishop of Astrakhan, and he was buried in the Holy Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The next place of pilgrimage is the Church of the Virgin of Strangers, so named because it was the parish of the non-indigenous inhabitants of Corfu, it houses the eponymous miraculous icon of the Mother of God, and the Temple of St. John. Eleupheria and St. Anna, Mother of the Virgin, where the relics of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, the Great Martyr Barbara, Saint Charalampius, the Apostle James, brother of the Lord, and other saints are kept. We will finish our tour in the Cathedral of St. Spyridon, where we will return again in order to touch the relics of the Saint in a calm atmosphere and without fuss, order prayer services, put candles and receive small shrines as a gift, a particle of St. Spyridon’s vestments – “filahto”.