Thirteen years have passed since the repose in the Lord of the late Elder Kosmas of Mount Athos and Calabria, new founder of the historic Byzantine Monastery of St. John the Harvester in Bivonzi of Calabria in the valley of Stillaro.
Metropolitan Polycarp of Italy performed a memorial service after the end of the Divine Liturgy on the feast of St. Spyridon the Wonderworker at the Cathedral of St. George of the Greeks in Venice.