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    Yet Another Pilgrimage To The Prisons of Athens: The Journey of Love Continues

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    Bishop Cyprian led a group from the St. Philaret the Merciful Orthodox Women’s Guild on a visit to the Juvenile Prison in Avlona, Greece. The group brought gifts and icons which they distributed to the around 100 prisoners, many as young as 15 years old. Both Christian and Muslim prisoners warmly received the visitors and asked for blessings. In his concluding remarks, Bishop Cyprian thanked the prisoners and asked their forgiveness, noting that the sins of those outside were responsible for their suffering in prison.

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    Bishop Cyprian led a group from the St. Philaret the Merciful Orthodox Women’s Guild on a visit to the Juvenile Prison in Avlona, Greece. The group brought gifts and icons which they distributed to the around 100 prisoners, many as young as 15 years old. Both Christian and Muslim prisoners warmly received the visitors and asked for blessings. In his concluding remarks, Bishop Cyprian thanked the prisoners and asked their forgiveness, noting that the sins of those outside were responsible for their suffering in prison.

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    ❖ METROPOLIS OF OROPOS AND PHYLE

    Yet Another Pilgrimage to the Prisons of Athens:


    The Journey of Love Continues

    O n the Feast of St. Thomas,


    April 21, 2008 (Old Style),
    the St. Philaret the Merciful Or-
    thodox Women’s Guild made an-
    other visit to the prisons in the
    vicinity of Athens, this time to the
    Juvenile Prison in Avlona. The
    visit, undertaken with the blessing
    of our ailing Metropolitan, was
    led by His Grace, Bishop Cyprian of Oreoi, Acting President of the Holy
    Synod, and began immediately after the conclusion of the Sunday Litur-
    gy at the Holy Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina in Phyle (Athens).
    (See the attached photograph, outside the monastery Cathedral.)
    The group of eighteen lay persons, accompanied by seven nuns rep-
    resenting two of our Synod’s convents (the Convent of the Holy Angels
    and the Convent of St. Para­skeve) and three monks from the monastery
    in Phyle, was received warmly by the Director of the Prison, who gave
    the visitors free access to any part of the facility.
    Having visited the prison chapel, the prisoners, around one hundred
    in number, and some as young as fifteeen years of age, were presented
    gifts, one by one, as they kissed the hand of Bishop Cyprian. Some of
    them, in fact, were Moslem youngsters, who nonetheless, in a very mov-
    ing act of fraternity, asked to kiss His Grace’s hand, as well as the Icon
    of Christ which the visitors carried with them to the prison.
    At the conclusion of the visit, Bishop Cyprian thanked the young
    prisoners for giving the pilgrims more than they had given the young of-
    fenders, characteristically making a prostration and asking forgiveness
    of the youngsters, assuring them that the sins of the visitors and those
    outside the prison were responsible for the suffering of those incarcer-
    ated therein.
     ❑

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