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  Father George Skrekas was born in 1910 in Megarchi (vilage in center Greece) to Greek Orthodox parents. He married a pious girl, Euthymia Douma. They had six boys. They were: John, Stephen, Basil, Andrew, Achilles and George the junior (baptized after his father's death).  Father George in 1938 he was ordained a Greek Orthodox Priest and with the goodness of his soul and his charitable deeds, he was loved by the Christian community of the entire region. He was the personification of kindness and justice. With his tireless activity, the sweetness of his words, his philanthropic deeds, his wise advice, he beautified the ugliness of life, sweetening the bitterness of his fellow human beings and diminishing their pain. The German occupation in Greece had begun at that time (1941-1945) and immediately after that the Communist rebellion (1946-1949). The communist gangs, known antichrists, atheistic materialists, did not wants inspired clergymen close to the people, because they we...