Konstantinos Kyriakou, a former political prisoner in Albania (during the regimes of Hoxha, Alia, and Berisha), recalls Dormition Day in 1994, when in Tirana the “Trial of the Five of Omonia” began.
Andreas Morphitis, from Famagusta, remembers abandoning his beautiful hometown on Dormition Day in 1974, in the midst of the brutal Turkish invasion known by its code name “Attila II.”
Giorgos Varythimiadis, President of the Pan-Pontian Federation of Greece, speaks about Panagia Soumela and other sacred shrines of Pontus, as well as the struggle of Pontic Hellenism for the recognition of the Genocide, and the living bond with those who remained in their ancestral lands and still preserve the Homeric dialect of the Greek tongue.
Michalis Mageirias, President of the Panhellenic Federation of Vlach Cultural Associations, extends his greetings to all Greeks of the Balkans, Vlachs and non-Vlachs alike.
Odysseas Elytis, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Konstantinos Kanaris — through their imagined dialogues with the Virgin Mary.