More than 5,000 believers attended the feast day of the Sibiu Municipal Hospital Chapel.

More than 5,000 believers attended, on Sunday and Monday, the feast day of the Sibiu Municipal Hospital Chapel, where they were able to venerate the relics of Saint Nectarios and Saint Luke of Crimea. The religious event was organized with the blessing of Laurențiu Streza, Metropolitan of Transylvania.

The relics of the two saints were brought out for veneration on Sunday, outside the chapel. On Monday, the feast day of Saint Hierarch Nectarios, the spiritual patron of the chapel, the Divine Liturgy for the feast day was celebrated.

The hospital manager, Dr. Ștefania Șerban, said that the large number of participants reinforces the management’s plan to build a chapel on the premises of the medical facility. It is intended to be a place of prayer and comfort for patients, their families, medical staff and believers.

On Tuesday, the relics were brought to the church in the grounds of Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital. The reception was scheduled for 8:30 a.m., followed by the Divine Liturgy and the Sacrament of Holy Unction. Believers were able to venerate the relics until 2:00 p.m. The event was organized under the guidance of Father Gheorghe Ghincea. Saint Nectarios is venerated as a healer of the sick, while Saint Luke of Crimea was a physician and hierarch.