A feast in church, then a feast in the street.Γιορτή στην εκκλησία, γιορτή στον δρόμο.

Demetrios was a young officer in the Roman army at Thessaloniki who taught the Christian faith openly at a time when it could cost your life. In the year 306 it cost his. He was killed with spears in the baths where he had been imprisoned, and his tomb became a place of pilgrimage within a few years.

He is called the Myrrh-streamer because fragrant oil has been reported at his relics for centuries. In icons you will see him on a red horse, in armour, a young man with a spear. Most of our founding families came from Arcadia and Chios, but the priest they borrowed in 1927 was a Thessalonian, and he asked them to take his city's saint. They agreed before the first Liturgy.