The annual pilgrimage to Panagia Soumela will take place on the weekend of August 16 and 17 at the facilities of the Holy Pontian Foundation of America and Canada, in West Milford, New Jersey.

Just a few days before the great feast of the Virgin Mary, visitors even from the other side of the Earth have begun to flock to one of the most historic pilgrimage sites of Orthodoxy, that of the Virgin Mary Soumela on Mount Vermio.

In the northern part of the monastery under the roof, the archaeologists found something they didn’t expect