Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos: ...shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, refusing biological joys and material pleasures...

Witnesses of the Resurrection were the Apostles, the Confessors, the Martyrs, the Venerable Ones, the Holy Fathers, men and women who bravely faced their problems in life with hope in the resurrection...

All these shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, refusing biological joys and material pleasures. 

Therefore, the Resurrection of Christ is not an ideology, a worldview, a metaphysic or a mysticism, but it is true life that transforms the entire human existence and overcomes death, mortality and the corruption of nature, and creates a transformation of the person and a renewal of all creation.

Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos