GALILEE: July 14, 2020
Archimandrite Roman (Krassovsky) participates in feast-day celebrations at SS Peter and Paul Church at the Greek monastery in Capernaum

The city of Capernaum, on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee was the site where our Lord Jesus Christ preached and performed many miracles. The house of St Peter was the place where the Savior healed the mother-in-law of His disciple.

On the feast day of SS Peter and Paul, July 12, 2020, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and All Palestine celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Monastery of the Holy Apostles in Capernaum. His Eminence Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth and His Eminence Metropolitan Joachim of Elenopolis Митрополит Назаретский Кириак и митрополит Еленопольский Иоаким сослужили Его Блаженствуjoined His Beatitude, as did Archimandrite Roman (Krassovsky), Chief of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the Russian Church Abroad and local clergymen of the Greek Patriarchate.

Despite a recent serious injury, Monk Irinarchos, Prior of the monastery, warmly and hospitably greeted the guests.

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