Category Archives: Miracles

Why St. Nektarios is a saint

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When in 1961 St. Nektarios of Aegina (+1920) was officially canonized, in one of the monasteries of the Holy Mount Athos the brotherhood was divided in their opinions about his canonization.

Some acknowledged the holiness of the Saint, while others refused flatly to pray to him as a saint of God. The atmosphere in the monastery became tense and heated up from day to day.

Then, the virtuous igumen of this monastery, seeing the turmoil taking place, summoned all the brethren and said:

– Let’s, fathers and brothers, not allow that the question of the holiness of Nektarios became a cause of disputes and spiritual doom in our brotherhood. From today I pronounce in our monastery three days of strict fasting and prayer. Let us fast and ask God to Himself reveal to us – Saint Nektarios or not a saint.

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St. Paraskeva heals woman of debilitating disease

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Every year, tens or even hundreds of thousands of faithful Orthodox Christians flock to the Romanian city of Iasi for the extended pilgrimage in honor of St. Paraskeva, one of Romania’s most beloved saints.

Nearly 20,000 hierarchs, clerics, monastics, and laymen joined in the procession with her relics held on Sunday night this year. Though St. Paraskeva is loved throughout the Balkans, and her relics have had many homes, they have been venerated in Iasi since 1641, working countless miracles to this day.

And according to personal testimony, the beloved saint is working miracles during her pilgrimage this year. Fr. Alexandru Lungu, a priest in Falticeni, published an account that he received on Sunday, October 8, of a woman who traveled from afar and was miraculously healed of a debilitating disease by the relics of St. Paraskeva.

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