The venerable head of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victory-Bearer will be brought to Romania from Mount Athos by a delegation led by Archimandrite Alexios, on the occasion of the feast of the patron saint of the Pantocrator Monastery in Teleorman County.
Found for the first time in Romania, the holy relics will be placed at the monastery between April 22 and 28, the Basilica news agency of the Romanian Patriarchate reported on Tuesday.
This week, representatives of the monastery and of the Diocese of Alexandria and Teleorman will travel to the Athonite Monastery Xenophontos to finalize details of the pilgrimage with the relics of Saint George, who is celebrated on April 23.
The Pantocrator Monastery chose to bring the relics because the saint's feast day falls close to Myrrh-Bearing Sunday, when the monastery honors Saint Mary Magdalene.
"The Myrrh-Bearing Sunday pilgrimage to the Pantocrator Monastery has already become an 11-year tradition, attracting thousands of pilgrims from all over the country," said Archimandrite Serafim Baciu, administrative vicar of the Diocese of Alexandria and Teleorman.
On April 26, His Holiness Panteleimon, Metropolitan of Veria, Naoussa and Campania (Church of Greece) is invited to celebrate service at the Pantocrator Monastery.
"Given that 2026 was declared by the Holy Synod as the Solemn Year of Christian Family Ministry and the Commemorative Year for the Holy Women in the Church Calendar (Myrrhbearers, martyrs, pious women, wives and mothers), and since the Pantocrator Monastery is the place where a fragment of the holy relics of the Holy Myrrhbearer and Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene is kept, we decided to organise several cultural-religious events, including a theology symposium on Saint Mary Magdalene as a model of service of the Christian woman," the administrative vicar added.
The Athonite Monastery Xenophontos, led by Archimandrite Alexios, is under the protection of Saint George.
Last year, the Pantocrator Monastery brought to Romania the full-body relics of Saint Empress Helena, which very rarely leave the Venetian basilica where they are kept.
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