Today, Saturday (7.6.2025) according to the panel The memory of St. Zenaidus, a miracle -worker, Saint Panagis from Kefallinia, Hosea Sevastian, is honored, while in all the Holy Temples there is the second and last psyche of the year, where the faithful honor the memory of the “golden” 48 days.
The names that celebrate today, according to the calendar, are:
- Zenais, Zenaida,
- Panagis, Panagos,
- Sebastian, Sevastina, Sevastiana,
- Sevasti, Sevi, Sevula, Sevastoula*.
Saint Panagis Basias (Paisios)
Saint Panagis Basias was born in Lixouri, Kefallinia in 1801 AD, and was the son of pious and prominent parents, by Michael Typaldos – Basia and Regina Delaporta. He learned Italian, French, Latin and was trained in philosophy and theology. A reader is still small and at the beginning of his career he is appointed a literary teacher and practices the teacher’s function.
At the age of 20, after the death of his father, having an innate inclination and influenced by the personality of the patron saint of St. Gerasimos and his neighbor, also the great ascetic Saint Anthimus, he abandons everything and reaches the “Xiroskopelos” But he did not stay too long with the prayers of his widow’s mother and his unprotected sister.
So he returns to the world, but his whole life turns out to be a constant ascetic struggle and consistent vigilance of his lonely ideas and decisions.
On May 21, 1864 AD, he enjoys the joy of the union of the Ionian Islands with Mother Greece, for which he worked in his own resistance manner near the heroes of Radicals, maintaining and cultivating the Orthodox tradition, in such difficult political and social periods.
Saint Panagis fell asleep in 1888 AD, and in Pandemimos after a three -day funeral, the famous Metropolitan of Kefallinia German Calligas said.
*There are other dates that celebrate this name.