A video out of Crete is going viral for all the right reasons. During an August 15th panigyri near Mylopotamos, villager...

A video out of Crete is going viral for all the right reasons. During an August 15th panigyri near Mylopotamos, villagers carried an elderly woman on a sunbed through the crowd so she wouldn't miss the celebration, even lifting her above the crowd to get her close to the stage where the band was playing. Cretan musician Petros Maroulis shared the video on social media, captioning it: "These things only happen in Margarites." The grandmother, for her part, clapped along to the music the entire time. August 15th marks the Dormition of the Mother of God, one of the most significant religious holidays in the Greek Orthodox calendar, sometimes called the "Easter of the Summer." Across Greece, the day is marked with church services followed by panigyria, traditional communal festivals that blend religious observance with live music, folk dancing, and celebration that often runs until dawn. A panigyri is built around one unwritten rule: everyone comes, regardless of age. Toddlers, teenagers, grandparents in their nineties, and everyone in between fills the village square or churchyard to dance to the lyra and laouto in Crete, or the clarinet on the mainland. The scene in Margarites was an almost perfect expression of that tradition. Nobody left the grandmother at home. They brought her to the front row. The video spread quickly across Greek social media, drawing tens of thousands of views and an outpouring of comments from Greeks in Greece and abroad recognizing the moment as something distinctly their own. #Greece #Crete #Panigyri