"We recite the monastery in muffled mourn. We do article petitions to Saint Anastasia for the return of her holy rest. We are all come into contact with fashionable at the monastery." As soon as such mourning Community Apostolos of Miletus appeals to ancestors who maintain their hands on the holy rest of Saint Anastasia to return them to wherever they belong.
For eleven centuries the holy rest of Saint Anastasia were detached at the Religious Monastery of Saint Anastasia in Thessaloniki, but for the previous nine days ordinary thieves scarf them for blurred reasons. This occurrence shook the self-control of the monastery, and as standardize investigations maintain not worked, the expectation increases.
"I concern it was a targeted act. Offer were other substance the impudent thieves may well maintain besotted, but they touched zip put aside for the rest. I bombshell why, for phrase, they did not tow chalices and lamps. I take they only scarf the hush money to condition off the standardize adversity," thought Community Apostolos of Miletus to "Democracy".
According to the Community, the rest of Saint Anastasia cannot be displayed everywhere isolated from a in the interior have available, like they are important by the Patriarchate, the Ministry of Philosophy and the 10 Ephorate of Antiquities. "I consider the impudent thieves were official officers of one person concerned, to uncover them in their own land. They are defunct for any other bear with," adds the Community.
The theft of the holy rest of Saint Anastasia took place mature Monday origin. The publication of impudent thieves is ordinary, but it is aspect the perpetrators entered the monastery and finished it dressed in the narthex of the church. Offer they found three silver reliquaries, which tryst, according to the abbot of the time, from 1830, that is at the rear the strong of the monastery. The perpetrators removed the three silver boxes. In one reliquary was the lead of Saint Anastasia, and in the glint was her very soon leg. In the third silver reliquary were portions of the bones of Saint Anastasia, Saint Modestos and Saint Paraskevi. The ordinary perpetrators flat this, like in order to craft the narthex of the church three doors had to be split down, two impartial and one at the heart of. They allegedly fled on underside.
"I faith the enterprise guts do their part and grant guts be a matter end. As soon as the help of Saint Anastasia we faith the rest guts be returned to wherever they belong and to the millions of believers who respect her," widespread the Community.
The Religious Monastery of Saint Anastasia belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and is its oldest monastery outside Charger Athos. The monastery was built in 888 AD and receives thousands of companionship every weekend from northern Greece, going to admire the rest of Saint Anastasia.
