Agenda: Today 18 January 2025 Thanasis celebrates

Today, Saturday, (18.1.2025), according to the honor of the memory of Saints Athanasios and Cyril and Saint Theodoulis. The names celebrated today, according to the celebration calendar, are as follows: Athanasios, Thanasis, Nasos, Sakis, Thanos, Thanassos, Sooulis, Athanasia, Nassia, Nancy, Thanasoula, Soula, Nasa, Souli Cyril, Kyrillia, Kyrillia, Kyrillis Theodoulia, Theodoulis, Theodoulos, Theodoulos, Theodoulos, Theodoulis, Theodouloulis, Theodouloulis, Theodouloulis Saints Athanasios the Great and Cyril, Patriarchs of Alexandria The Great Athanasios was born in 295 AD to poor but virtuous parents, which deprived him of the possibility for higher studies. But the holy God endowed him with rich spiritual qualifications. He receives elementary education and then studies alone to reach high levels of knowledge and wisdom. From a very young man he showed his momentum to the Church. At the age of 25 he is ordained a minister by patriarch Alexandria Alexander, who follows him to the First Ecumenical Council in 325 AD, in Nice, Bithynia. He is a pioneer in condemning the heretical teaching of the Areos. In 328 AD and at the age of 33, he was elected the ceremonial patriarch of Alexandria. From this position he faces a terrible war on the part of the heretical followers of the Areos. But the saint, thanks to his great spirituality and warm Faith in God, manages to come out victorious from all these trials even from the five exiles imposed upon him, as Emperor Constantine II was a fan of Martianism. CORVERSE He slept in peace in 373 C.E. Agios Cyril lived during the reign of Theodosios of Mikros and was born in Alexandria in 370 AD to wealthy parents of the Greek society of the city. A nephew of Archbishop Alexandria Theophilus, Cyril received a great theological education, so that he became a successor to his uncle, the archdiocese throne of Alexandria. When the Third Ecumenical Council took place in 431 AD in Ephesus, Cyril was president of it and contributed to the destruction of the malpractices of the dissonant Nestorius, for the face of our super-holy Despoine Theotokos. With many spiritual accomplishments in his energy, Cyril peacefully delivered his spirit to the Lord on June 27, 444 C.E., after he had been patriarchal for about 32 years. Rightly St. Anastasios Sinatis named him “the seal of the Fathers”. The Church wanted to twin the memory of her two Great Fathers and Archbishops of Alexandria, the Great Athanasius, a protagonist against Martianism, and St Cyril, a protagonist against Nestorianism and set their celebration on January 18. It is recalled that Saint Cyril is also celebrated on 9 June