A memorial service for Gotse Delchev was held in the Bigor monastery

Episcopal Parthenius and the Bigor brotherhood held a memorial service for Gotse Delchev on the occasion of the 151st anniversary of his birth.

- It seems that in today's Macedonian sunshine, after the names of our co-apostolic fathers and educators, there is no sweeter-sounding name of a people's sharer than that of Gotse Delchev. The very mention of him causes or should cause noble feelings in every modern Macedonian. It is honorable, just and worthy to be proud of such a spiritual giant, whose thought and ideological set makes him equally great and valid even today, Bishop Partheniy said, among other things, in his address.

He added that even if we didn't know anything about his life, we could understand this only from his worldview, expressed in the words that came out of his thoughtfulness, "I understand the world only as a field for cultural competition between nations."

– This syllogism, derived from a deep and practical life's jealousy, shows Delchev as an evangelical lily sprouting from the Macedonian soil, which adorns the idea of ​​the person and of humanity. In other words, born in Macedonia and brought up in the native Christian culture and philosophy, Gotse Delchev, alien to any nationalism and chauvinism, is a citizen of the world, or, perhaps better said, a citizen above the world. A timeless and universal cultural and cult ideologue and actor - he pointed out.

Bishop Partenij said that he will end with the prophetic words of Delchev's closest friend and associate, and also his first biographer, Pejo Javorov. They were "written down in the preface of his book "Goce Delchev", published one year after the heroic death of the apostle.

"Thousands of faces of those who died in the prime of their youth, fighters, glow with the undimmed glow of an unparalleled self-denial, of a vowless self-sacrifice. Among them, however, the figure of the man will always take the first place, whose best biography will one day be the extensive history of the Macedonian revolutionary movement from the beginning until now. That man's name stands as the title of our book. May his memory be eternal - wished Bishop Mr. Parthenius Antaniski, abbot of the Bigor Monastery at the memorial service held on the occasion of the 151st anniversary of the birth of Gotse Delchev.

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