With religious reverence, a large number of believers of all ages flooded the Church of Agios Georgios of Exorinos in the walled city of Famagusta, where a Divine Liturgy was performed on the day of the great feast of Pentecost.
The Eucharistic gathering and the Vespers for the feast of the Holy Spirit were presided over by the first council of the Holy Metropolis of Constantia, Archimandrite Augustinos Kkaras, supported by Fr. Barnabas Symeonov.
A special figure in the meeting of the people of Famagusta, Mr. Mike Elias, who lived in England and returned to Cyprus in 1974. Wanting to contribute in his own way to the effort to find a fair and sustainable solution for the coexistence of E / K and T / K, started on Friday by Apostolos Andreas and walked all the distance to Agios Georgios, thus fulfilling a vow.
After the end of the Divine Liturgy, the clergy and the people headed to the coastal area (Constantia-of the Language) where it was performed again 41 years after the invasion, the blessing of the waters and the throwing of the Holy Cross. This pre-eminent custom of the city of Famagusta was revived every year on the day of the feast of the Holy Spirit by the Hierarchical Commissioner of Famagusta + Archim. Efstathios Papageorgiou, who threw the Holy Cross into the sea of Varos. After 1974 the blessed + Prot. Evelthon Charalambous transferred this custom to the free province of Famagusta.
