Hundreds of believers from all corners of the free Cyprus flock again this year to the celebratory Holy Monastery of Agios Kendeas despite the community of Avgoros, to honor the memory of one of the Saints of Alaman, a group of Saints with an imprecise numerical identification, who coming from various places -mainly Jerusalem-, came and martyred in Cyprus.
Near the cave where Saint Kendeas lived and slept, here where his presence is always felt, a few meters from the dead zone and the Turkish outpost of Attila, it was erected with much effort and labor in difficult times, by the blessed Gerontissa Christofora Monachi and the surrounding monastic brotherhood, a guarded holy foundation, a spiritual beacon in his honor.
Although the life of Osios is not widely known, nevertheless in the consciousness of the Cypriots his name was associated with the algae (pains) of the human body, called in the local dialect "jieges" (Agios Kendeas-> Ais Tziegias), for ΄ this and the pious people come with faith, reverence and hope, lighting a candle and invoking healing of their illnesses, but also a shortening of the trial of our special homeland which for more than forty-five years is still experiencing the consequences of the invasion with the illegal military occupation, the massive violations of the human rights of the Cypriot people, the illegal settlement and the ongoing destruction of its Greek and Orthodox cultural heritage.
This prominent monastery is a large pan-Cypriot pilgrimage, especially on the day of its remembrance, the 2nd in a row we would say without exaggeration, after Saints Kyprianos and Justin in the community of Meniko in the province of Nicosia, who also celebrated four days ago.
On the evening of the eve of the holiday, Thursday, October 5, 2023, the solemn Vespers of the rural Metropolitan of Constantia and Famagusta, Mr. Vassiliou, was held.
Before the dismissal, a trishagio was chanted in favor of the rest of the deceased members of the fraternity and of all those who served in the holy Monastery.