The Metropolitan of Patras awarded young player of the courage and altruism – Read what he did

In a warm ceremony the Metropolitan of Patras Chrysostomos awarded the George Mitropoulos, who recently saved…
our fellow human beings from certain death after an accident that occurred on the Patra-Pyrgos.
The 29-year-old from the Ριόλο, as he had written the tempo24.gr a few days ago, at the risk of his own life saved the lives of two elderly people who were almost burned alive when their car was engulfed in flames,
Giorgos Mitropoulos, who is struggling to Πανμοβριακό, go to gather olives and was moving at the 42nd kilometer of the national road of Pyrgos – Patra at 8.15 on the morning of Sunday 27 December, when all of a sudden the car driven by a 55-year-old ran off the road.
Initially it crashed violently into a pole. The engine is on fire and the flames engulfed the windshield. In a panic, the driver tried to get out, but a 83χρονος and an 82-year-old who were riding in the car, it seemed that they couldn’t respond.
Trapped
Then appeared the young footballer. Perplexed, the driver stammered: “I’ve Got people inside, burn”!
The 29-year-old saw the two trapped and without thinking he reached into the burning vehicle and pulled it out, seconds before the fire to destroy the car. At the point reached the crew of the Fire Service Λεχαινών and put out the fire, while the wounded were admitted to the Hospital Tower. The page of George Mitropoulos on facebook was inundated with congratulations messages that they posted dozens of Ileioi, as it is known both as a footballer of the Πανμοβριακού and groups of PAO Vardas and the Progressive Μανολάδας, which has struggled in the past.
Specifically, in a communication issued by the Metropolis of Patras and received the tempo24.gr refers to:
“Before ὀλίγων distant in τροχαῖο car accident where it happened in ὁδό Πατρῶν-Tower, ἐκινδύνευσαν to καοῦν alive in the αὐτοκίνητο two of our fellow human beings.
The ὥρα of the event while some were passed without a stop, passing by the point, the young Georgios Mitropoulos, by the village Ριόλο Ἀχαΐας, ἐσταμάτησε ἀμέσως and ἀψηφώντας the risk for the life, ἔτρεξε the burning ran and ἔβγαλε the two ἐπιβαίνοντας in this-who εὑρίσκοντο close with the ζῶνες ἀσφαλείας.
In the seconds after the rescue of two ἐπιβατῶν, the αὐτοκίνητο ἐτυλίχθη in flames and was destroyed.
The George Mitropoulos ἐκάλεσε the Eminence in γραφεῖο of the Ἐπισκοπεῖο and congratulated for the act. Moreover, the Ἑσπερινό of παραμονῆς of Πρωτοχρονιᾶς, the Ἱερό Temple of Saint Paul Ἀνδρέου Πατρῶν, in πληθούσῃ Ἐκκλησίᾳ, the Eminence ἐτίμησε the young Georgios Mitropoulos, ἐπιδίδοντας to him Εὐεργετήριο Letter, for the as to act.
To the aforementioned young, the Eminence ἀπηύθυνε warm words with a fatherly love, the ἐπήνεσε, the εὐχαρίστησε and the εὐλόγησε, εὐχηθείς in him to ἔχῃ ὑγεία in life and prosperity in God.
Moreover, he congratulated the οἰκογένειά, – who attended to honor this ἐκδήλωση for the Γιῶργο.
The large ἐκκλησίασμα with joy and emotion, ἐπεκρότησε the action of the Eminence and κατεχειροκρότησε him evaluated.”
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