Relics of the Saint queen for the first time brought Konstantinopolskaya Helena

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gorod Afiny, on May 15, 2017

of Thousand of believers in gorod Afiny met on Sunday May 14 relics of the Saint queen equal to the apostles Konstantinopolskaya Helena, swear Saint Veliky Konstantin which for the first time brought to Greece from Italian Venice, report Russian gorod Afiny .

At the Athenian airport of power with all honors were met by hierarches of the Greek orthodox church and the minister of national defense of Kammenos Panos.

In Saint Varvara's church where relics will be till June 15, at a ceremony there were the archbishop Afinsky and only Greece Iyeronim and the president of the country Prokopis Pavlopulos.

Saint Konstantinopolskaya Helena is known for the activities for Christianity distribution. Saint Konstantinopolskaya Helena call the defender of Christians. She died in 328 at the age of 80 years. Sacred relics Saint Konstantinopolskaya Helena were transported to Venice from Constantinople in 1211. Her son the emperor Veliky Konstantin refused paganism and transferred the empire capital from Rome to the city of Byzantium which was renamed into Constantinople.

Till June 15 of power Saint Konstantinopolskaya Helena will stay in Saint Varvara's church around Egaleo.