SAINT NEKTARIOS
Saint Nektarios of Aegina is one of the most widely known of Greek Orthodox Saints. He was officially recognized as a Saint by the Ecumenical Patriarche of Constantinople in 1961. His Feast Day is celebrated every year on November 9.
Many people regarded St. Nectarios as a Saint during his lifetime because of his prayerful life, his humility, his purity and other virtues, his writings, as well as the miracles he performed. St. Nectarios also had the gift of prescience.
A Miracle of St. Nektarios
During the last days of his life, the Saint was in the room for the incurables of the hospital, among many poor patients who were at the point of death. Beside his bed there was a patient who was paralysed for years. As soon as the Saint gave up his spirit, a nurse of the hospital together with the nun who had accompanied the Saint, began to prepare the holy body for transportation to Aegina and burial. When they removed the old sweater of the Saint, they placed it for convenience on the bed of the paralytic and continued preparing the body. Strangely, the paralytic patient at once became well and rose from his bed, praising the Lord. This was the first miracle after the repose of the Saint, through which God our Lord confirmed the sainthood of Nectarios.
This cache brings you to the holy chapel of St. Nektarios that is located just a couple of kilometers from the silk town, Soufli. The chapel is in a very nice and calm place where you can sit down, have a rest or just light a candle.
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