2024-04-01 23:26:02
Present, in addition to the family of the shipowner Nikolas Pateras, were relatives and friends, as well as the former minister Notis Mitarakis
The 40-day memorial service of the mother of the shipowner Nikolas Patera, Annis D. Patera, was held last Saturday, with the whole family giving their “present”. The ceremony took place in the Holy Church of Agios Nikolaos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Athens, under the patronage of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Ieronymos, who was supported by the director of the Office of Representation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Athens, Metropolitan of Laodicea, Mr. Theodoritos, her mentor of the Holy Monastery of Petrakis, Metropolitan of Thaumakos Mr. Iakovos, and the Protosygelo of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, Archimandrite Varnavas Theoharis.
Present at the 40-day memorial of Annis Patera, apart from the Patera family, led by her son Nikolaos, were relatives and friends, as well as the former minister and MP of Chios Notis Mitarakis. The deceased, who came from Kefalonia and was born Spyratou, was born in 1939. In 1960 she married Diamantis N. Patera, with whom they had three children and twelve grandchildren, while she lived in Switzerland from 1970 to 1990. modest and calm power of shipping, wife of the late ship owner, mother of Nikos, Anastasia and the prematurely lost Maria, she was an enlightened ast, deeply religious, an excellent and generous person, while stealing the show with her appearance at shipping events as well as at the private dinners she gave at her home, by her husband’s side.
Above all, however, she had devoted herself to raising her children, whom she was proud to grow up, as well as her grandchildren. After all, it was she who had transmitted to her only son her love for fellow human beings, her sensitivity and her solidarity, with the creation of the “Nicolas D. Pateras” Charitable Foundation, strengthening the social, cultural and maritime heritage of the homeland us, at the same time offering support to the young and also to our suffering fellow human beings. Also, together with her son Nikolaos, she became a great benefactor of the Holy Church of Agios Nikolaos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Plutarchou Street, renovating it repeatedly and helping in many ways.
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