St. George Karlidis

 " If we have not done these (confession and Holy Communion), then woe to us, because Holy Communion is the ticket to the other world .

And this ticket is not paid with money nor can we go back to do our homework.

Therefore, my dear children, please, be always ready! Do not wait at the last moment to prepare for the next life, because we do not know the day or the time when we will leave this world.

We do not make this trip any time we want!

This depends on the Another! »

St. George Karlidis

Our righteous father George (Karslidis) the New Confessor of Drama (π. Γεώργιος Καρσλίδης ) was born in Argyroupolis, Pontos in 1901 of pious parents, Savva Karslides and Sophia. At baptism he received the name Athanasius. He is known to have been in Georgia, Armenia, and Russia before spending most of his life in the village of Sipsa (now identified as Taxiarches) in Drama of Northern Greece. He established a small monastery there and slept in the Lord November 4, 1959. He was glorified by the Patriarchate of Constantinople on November 2, 2008 at the Monastery of the Ascension in Sipsa. The elder was well known for his miracles and prophecies. The church commemorates his memory November 4. He is one of few saints known to bear an imprint of the sign of the cross on his skull. (wiki)