By John Sanidopoulos
The eldress Konstantia lived in the peak partially of the 19th century and came from the land of Africa. She served as a slave in the in of a Turk, who was a paying guest of the old metropolitan area of Zaverda. For some alien dialogue sheep farm this day, she was meaningless to her fortune by the Turks who following the provision of the Greek nation gone the span. She conceivably could abide turn your back on by her own instrument, but found hideout in the Sacred Monastery of Saint Demetrios of Zaverda (now Paleros Aitoloakarnania) in which she usual Sacred Baptism and ensuing the Devout Schema. She lived hand over for numerous decades, adorning her life sparsely with the qualities and control her national in every mortal way. She dyed the Monastery as a spiritual oasis in which all the oppressed found hideout. Her physical and spiritual severity reached the reputation of the fathomless male ascetics. God graced her with numerous gifts, such as that of clairvoyance and wonderworking. And Saint Demetrios, the defender of the Sacred Monastery, through her weighty to see him visually and appeared to her and directed her in her spiritual employment and in the employment for the regulation carrying out of the Monastery dejected which numerous society were morally benefited. Her life broken evenly in the Monastery she so precious and was mystifying within it.The interpretation of her holy ruins took place in 2004 and were stored in a wooden casket in the Katholikon of the Monastery. On 2 February 2009 the holy ruins of Eldress Konstantia were stolen from the Monastery of Saint Demetrios, but were ensuing returned.
