WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014 A New Miracle of St. Luke the Physician in Argos
April 2, 2014 Romfea.gr
As was related to me by a young man from Argos, Christos Argyropoulos (child of the Conductor of the Municipal Philharmonic of Argos), he had received a few pieces of cotton with oil from the sacred relics of Saint Luke the Physician at his shrine in the Sacred Church of Saint Peter of Argos.
On March 30th he chanced upon his friend, a young man named Spyridon D. who owns a shop in Argos, and he gave him a bit of cotton as a blessing from the Saint.
Spyridon D. suffered many difficulties from a herniated disc and problems in the afferent nerve fibers, which caused him acute pain every time he tried to accomplish even the most basic movements of a healthy person (eg. it took him 20 minutes to get into a car due to his pain).
Not a half hour passed and his friend called him weeping with astonishment and emotion, telling him how he just had arrived home and his mother anointed him with the oil of the Saint. He immediately felt something leave from within him and all the pains that tormented him for so long disappeared!
After a short time he met his friend, the one who told us about this miracle, and in front of him he began to do various acrobatic stunts on the pavement, crying and laughing at the same time for the miracle of love shown by Saint Luke to this young man.
[I strongly thank Saint Luke, who made me worthy these past few days to become a recipient of two of his miracles out of the thousands he does, both visibly and invisibly for the glory of our Christ.
This is a good answer to all those who with perverted logic misunderstand and deny the miracles of the sacred relics of the Saints, forgetting that every miracle is simply natural law in the supernatural world.]
Fr. Dionysios Tampakis Sacred Church of Panagia of Nafplio
Ukrainians are referred to like that in Greek, such as "Aghios Ioannis o Rossos" or St John the Rusyn/Russian who was an ethnic Ukrainian Kozak captured by the Turks etc.
"Mikra Rossia" is translated as "Little Russia" but it loses a lot in the translation.
As you know, "Mikra" means the essence or "heart" - the crucial part of something as opposed to the "Great" part that surrounds it.
Thank you, Alice. St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky) is one of my favourite saints! I never thought about whether he was an Ukrainian or Russian. He was born in the Russian empire in 1877. His ancestors served in the court of the Polish and Lithuanian kings. He starts his autobiography with a phrase:"My father was a very devout Catholic, he always went to church and pray for a long time at home." We can't say which nationality he was. This is not so important! But the most important is that he was a saint man, his destiny was very hard, but he kept his faith inspite of suffering, pain, arrests, exiles, jails, hard deseases. He treated people and worked hard on scientific researches. I want to suggest everyone, who reads this post, if something happens with a health (let this cup pass from us), pray St.Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), he will help!!!
He is one of the most popular saints in eastern Europe today. We should always promote the veneration of such saints who were scientists and yet who believed in God and performed miracles in his name.
He was glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and then by Moscow and has been accepted universally by Orthodoxy and even by many Catholics.
I underscore that he was Ukrainian only to indicate which national Choir of Saints he belongs to in the first instance.
Greeks who became saints and martyrs under the Ottoman Empire - the fact of their being Greek was very important to them and to the Greek people. They would never consider themselves "Turks" by any means.
St Cosmas Aitolos defended the Orthodox Church of Greece and Greek identity - the two went hand in hand.
In the same way, the saints of Ukraine maintained their identity in various ways - as the Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Ilarion Ohienko wrote about in his works.
St Paissy Velichkovsky's disciples came from ten cultural groups (including the Hutsuls whom he counted as a separate cultural group and Chalcedonian Armenians). He signed his name always with "Native of Poltava" to underscore his own identity.
The various Choirs of Saints of the national Orthodox Churches are important to those Churches.
And Ukrainian saints have for too long tended to be lumped together with the Choir of Saints of Russia without any further differentiation.
And that differentiation was and is important to the Orthodox Church of Kyiv/Kiev.
Alex
Last edited by Orthodox Catholic; 04/05/1408:43 PM.
Thank you, Alice. St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky) is one of my favourite saints! I never thought about whether he was an Ukrainian or Russian. He was born in the Russian empire in 1877. His ancestors served in the court of the Polish and Lithuanian kings. He starts his autobiography with a phrase:"My father was a very devout Catholic, he always went to church and pray for a long time at home." We can't say which nationality he was. This is not so important! But the most important is that he was a saint man, his destiny was very hard, but he kept his faith inspite of suffering, pain, arrests, exiles, jails, hard deseases. He treated people and worked hard on scientific researches. I want to suggest everyone, who reads this post, if something happens with a health (let this cup pass from us), pray St.Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), he will help!!!
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