{"id":7776,"date":"2023-07-18T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/periexomeno\/gennesion-theotokou-oichalia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T06:46:32","slug":"gennesion-theotokou-oichalia","status":"publish","type":"periexomeno","link":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/periexomeno\/gennesion-theotokou-oichalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gennesion Theotokou Oichalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7776\" class=\"elementor elementor-7776 elementor-6019\" data-elementor-post-type=\"periexomeno\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-549938c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"549938c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4087cf9\" data-id=\"4087cf9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b24efc6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b24efc6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Hundreds of believers from Oichalia and the surrounding areas climb Mount &#8220;Orphanos&#8221; every year to the Holy Monastery of Orphanos, so that the Birth of the Virgin can be celebrated with great pomp and ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities begin with Great Vespers. On the day of the feast, at 7:30 in the morning chant the Orthros for the Divine Liturgy to follow. After this you usually offer traditional koftos.  <\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, in a sweltering climate, the solemn vespers follows with bread baking and a divine sermon, at the Holy Monastery of Genesiou of Theotokou Orphanou Oichalia, Trikala.<\/p>\n<p>After vespers, the faithful line up for the relative hospitality offered by the church.<\/p>\n<p>At night, some believers observe the custom of fire and roasting that has been revived around the monastery for decades.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93e40cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"93e40cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/gennesio-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7360\" 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The festivities begin with Great Vespers. On the day of the feast, at 7:30 in the morning chant the Orthros&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7196,"template":"","class_list":["post-7776","periexomeno","type-periexomeno","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/periexomeno\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/periexomeno"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/periexomeno"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/periexomeno\/7776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/periexomeno\/7776\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farkadona-culture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}