{"id":256145,"date":"2019-10-18T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=256145"},"modified":"2019-10-18T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:02:23","slug":"mount-athos-more-than-250000-pilgrims-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/mount-athos-more-than-250000-pilgrims-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Athos: More than 250,000 pilgrims a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Agioritikes Grammes shipping company has had to launch a new boat to take pilgrims to Holy Mount Athos from Ouranoupolis as the number of pilgrims continues to grow, <a href=\"http:\/\/orthochristian.com\/124774.html\">orthochristian<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s ninth ship heading to the Daphne port on Mt. Athos from Ouranoupolis has a capacity for 500 passengers and trucks, company president Riginos Tsanos told.<\/p>\n<p>The new boat \u201cis called the Panagia Guarantor and it expresses our desire to guarantee the pilgrims and monks to be transported to Mt. Athos,\u201d said Tsanos, whose company has been active in the area for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>The pilgrims who visit Mount Athos exceed 250,000, as he said, and there is an increase in traffic and trucks (about 10,000) due to the needs of the monasteries\u2019 restorations and the works being done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years we have seen a significant increase in pilgrims, not only of people coming from different parts of Greece but also from abroad. For this reason and with respect to the Holy Community and to the trust that the Holy Fathers have shown us, the company and the group are constantly upgrading their transportation to Mount Athos,\u201d Tsanos said.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy: orthochristian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agioritikes Grammes shipping company has had to launch a new boat to take pilgrims to Holy Mount Athos from Ouranoupolis as the number of pilgrims continues to grow, orthochristian reports. The company\u2019s ninth ship heading to the Daphne port on Mt. 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