Γερόντισσα Γαλακτια

 

“I saw Hades and what happens there… May no one ever go there, not even for a second. I saw people from my village… I spoke to no one… Afterwards I lit candles and prayed.

The poor souls began to leap and rejoice… There are heretics there. Sorcerers and witches! If only they knew what awaits them!

Better if they had never been born… The irreverent clergy… Oh, the poor wretches… The blasphemers, the evildoers, those who defiled their bodies, the unfaithful (adulterers), fornicators, and above all those guilty of homosexual acts!

Unbearable torments! Now even married people do these things. Horror! My grandfather (Fr. Nikolaos) used to say when he was near death:

‘Fortunately, I will not live to see the coming years… God showed me things beyond what your minds can comprehend… Even marriage will become like a discarded sponge (used toilet paper).’

I always wondered what my grandfather meant.

Recently, I saw him! Radiant with light! He told me to include many departed souls in my prayers. I myself realized in my heart how much help they need.

At times it is as if the earth opens and countless souls emerge, passing before me and asking for help. My grandfather explained to me:

‘My child, while I lived on earth, I thought that only the Proskomide (commemoration at the Divine Liturgy) helped the departed. This is indeed the greatest help. Yet the prayer rope and the Psalter also greatly benefit souls.’

I asked him:

‘Grandfather, what did you mean when you said that marriage would become like a discarded sponge?’

He replied:

‘My child, people will practice the deeds of homosexuals, and the Holy Spirit (the grace of the sacrament) will be deeply grieved. Human nature and the blood of mankind will become defiled…’

From the book: “The Holy Elder Galaktia of Crete – Her Legacy and Teachings: Testimonies of People Who Knew Her,” pp. 167–168, Theomorphou Publications, Nicosia, 2023.

🇷🇺 Русский

«Я увидела ад и то, что там происходит… Пусть никто не попадёт туда даже на одно мгновение. Я увидела людей из своей деревни… Ни с кем не разговаривала… Потом зажигала свечи и молилась.

Бедные души начали подпрыгивать и радоваться… Там находятся еретики. Колдуны и ведьмы! Если бы они только знали, что их ожидает!

Лучше бы они никогда не рождались… Нечестивые священнослужители… О, бедные несчастные… Богохульники, злодеи, осквернившие своё тело, прелюбодеи, блудники и прежде всего совершающие гомосексуальные деяния!

Невыносимые мучения! Теперь это делают даже женатые люди. Ужас! Мой дедушка (отец Николай) говорил перед смертью:

«К счастью, я не доживу до грядущих лет… Бог показал мне вещи, которые ваш разум не способен вместить… И даже брак станет подобен использованной губке (туалетной бумаге).»

Я всегда думала, что имел в виду мой дедушка.

Недавно я увидела его! Сияющего светом! Он сказал мне поминать в молитвах многих усопших. И я сама почувствовала сердцем, как сильно они нуждаются в помощи.

Иногда кажется, будто земля раскрывается, и бесчисленные души выходят наружу, проходят передо мной и просят помощи. Тогда мой дедушка объяснил мне:

«Дитя моё, пока я жил на земле, я думал, что усопшим помогает только Проскомидия. Это действительно величайшая помощь. Но и молитвенная чётка, и Псалтирь также очень помогают душам.»

Я спросила его:

«Дедушка, что ты имел в виду, говоря, что брак станет подобен использованной губке?»

Он ответил:

«Дитя моё, люди будут совершать дела гомосексуалистов, и Святой Дух (благодать Таинства) будет сильно опечален. Человеческая природа и кровь людей будут осквернены…»

Из книги: «Преподобная старица Галактия Критская — её наследие и наставления. Свидетельства людей, знавших её», стр. 167–168, издательство «Феоморфу», Никосия, 2023.

🇸🇦 العربية

«رأيتُ الجحيم وما يحدث فيه… ليتَ أحدًا لا يذهب إلى هناك ولو لثانية واحدة. رأيتُ أناسًا من قريتي… لم أتحدث إلى أحد… وبعد ذلك أشعلتُ الشموع ورفعتُ الصلوات.

بدأت النفوس المسكينة تقفز فرحًا… هناك الهراطقة. والسحرة والساحرات! لو كانوا يعلمون ما الذي ينتظرهم!

كان خيرًا لهم لو لم يولدوا قط… رجال الدين غير الأتقياء… يا لبؤسهم… المجدفون، والأشرار، والذين دنسوا أجسادهم، والزناة، والفاسقون، وعلى وجه الخصوص الذين يمارسون الأفعال المثلية!

عذابات لا تُحتمل! والآن حتى المتزوجون يفعلون هذه الأمور. يا للهول! كان جدي (الأب نيقولاوس) يقول وهو على فراش الموت:

«من حسن حظي أنني لن أعيش لأرى السنوات القادمة… لقد أراني الله أمورًا لا يستطيع عقلكم تصورها… وحتى الزواج سيصبح كالإسفنجة المستعملة (ورق المرحاض المستعمل).»

كنت دائمًا أتساءل ماذا كان يقصد جدي.

وفي الآونة الأخيرة رأيته! متلألئًا بالنور! وقال لي أن أذكر كثيرًا من الراقدين في صلواتي. وقد شعرتُ بنفسي في قلبي كم هم بحاجة إلى المساعدة.

وأحيانًا يبدو وكأن الأرض تنشق وتخرج منها أعداد لا تُحصى من النفوس، تمر أمامي وتطلب المساعدة. ثم شرح لي جدي قائلًا:

«يا ابنتي، عندما كنت أعيش على الأرض كنت أظن أن خدمة التقدمة الإلهية وحدها تساعد الراقدين. وهذا صحيح، فهي أعظم مساعدة. لكن حبل الصلاة وسفر المزامير يساعدان النفوس كثيرًا أيضًا.»

فسألته:

«يا جدي، ماذا كنت تقصد عندما قلت إن الزواج سيصبح كالإسفنجة المستعملة؟»

فأجاب:

«يا ابنتي، سيقوم الناس بأعمال المثليين، وسيتألم الروح القدس كثيرًا (أي نعمة السر المقدس). وستتدنس الطبيعة البشرية ودم البشر…»

من كتاب: «الشيخة القديسة غالاكتيّا الكريتية: وصيتها وتعاليمها – شهادات أناس عرفوها»، الصفحتان 167–168، منشورات ثيومورفو، نيقوسيا، 2023.

Η Νηστεία στην Ορθόδοξη Παράδοση / Fasting in the Orthodox Tradition

Πολλοί άνθρωποι θεωρούν ότι η νηστεία είναι το σημαντικότερο στοιχείο της πνευματικής ζωής. Όμως ο Χριστός τόνισε πολύ περισσότερο την αγάπη, τη μετάνοια, την ταπείνωση, το έλεος, τη συγχώρηση και την πίστη.

Μάλιστα επέκρινε όσους τηρούσαν εξωτερικά τις θρησκευτικές πρακτικές, αλλά η καρδιά τους ήταν μακριά από τον Θεό. Η εξωτερική νηστεία χωρίς εσωτερική μεταμόρφωση δεν αποτελεί τον σκοπό της χριστιανικής ζωής.

Στην Ορθόδοξη παράδοση η νηστεία θεωρείται μέσο πνευματικής άσκησης και όχι αυτοσκοπός. Βοηθά τον άνθρωπο να καλλιεργήσει την εγκράτεια, να πολεμήσει τα πάθη και να αφιερώσει περισσότερο χρόνο στην προσευχή και τη μετάνοια.

Οι Άγιοι Πατέρες διδάσκουν ότι η νηστεία χωρίς αγάπη, προσευχή, ταπείνωση και έλεος έχει περιορισμένη πνευματική ωφέλεια. Η αληθινή νηστεία δεν αφορά μόνο το τι βάζουμε στο στόμα μας, αλλά και το τι βγαίνει από την καρδιά μας.

Η σωτηρία δεν επιτυγχάνεται μέσω της νηστείας και μόνο. Η χριστιανική ζωή είναι μια πορεία εν Χριστώ, που βασίζεται στη χάρη του Θεού, την πίστη, τη μετάνοια και την αγάπη προς τον Θεό και τον πλησίον.

English

Many people consider fasting to be the most important aspect of spiritual life. However, Christ emphasized far more the importance of love, repentance, humility, mercy, forgiveness, and faith.

He also criticized those who outwardly observed religious practices while their hearts remained far from God. External fasting without inner transformation is not the goal of the Christian life.

In the Orthodox tradition, fasting is regarded as a means of spiritual discipline rather than an end in itself. It helps believers cultivate self-control, struggle against passions, and devote more time to prayer and repentance.

The Holy Fathers teach that fasting without love, prayer, humility, and mercy offers limited spiritual benefit. True fasting is not only about what enters our mouths, but also about what comes out of our hearts.

Salvation is not attained through fasting alone. The Christian life is a journey in Christ, founded upon God’s grace, faith, repentance, and love for God and neighbor.

“If you are fasting, show it through your works. If you see a poor man, take pity on him.” — Saint John Chrysostom

True event

 

THIS IS COMING AFTER ERDOGAN AND AFTER= WW3

 

The military bases they have in Crete will all be hit immediately. There will be chaos there, terrible chaos, and before they even get there, the Greek army will be coming down too, Kostas.

My Panagia, by then they will have been cornered, and then, for revenge, from there they will do harm wherever they find people—children, women, old people, and so on. And many people will be killed, as the prophecy said.

"Did Elder Galatia

say that?"

"Yes. If you see them do it and the others take over, immediately things start to go boom with the Turks, because Erdogan doesn't make war like that.

But if they remove him and fighters take over, within ten to fifteen days, there will be war, because we will strike.

All the borders they have with the Greeks, all the islands, Rhodes, the Dodecanese, the nearby islands, everywhere.

Because even if they occupy one small island, afterward, they become entitled to claim things, and then they come for the oil and so on.

And they will say, 'We want negotiations, and we want half of Kastellorizo too, let's say, so that we can also have everything.'

And we will be forced to retreat and so on.

Meanwhile, this also benefits the Americans, because the Americans are the ones who will come for the oil. They apply the ancient Roman principle: divide and rule.

Suppose, Vasilis, that you have a large American company. It benefits you as an American company, and it benefits the American government, regarding the oil and natural gas that is being exploited.

For the Turks to have half and the Greeks to have half, because then you negotiate better.

If we go to war among ourselves, the Dardanelles will be closed, and the Russian doesn't want that. The Russian wants to come out through the straits, as he does now.

And then the Russians will rise up.

And then the Russians will come down in full force, and there will be chaos.

Because Turkey will have received an attack, and Turkey is a NATO country.

According to NATO's charter, all NATO countries are obligated to fight against Russia. There are thirty countries.

We Greeks will see all this.

Since we Greeks will be at war with the Turks—that is, two NATO countries fighting each other—they will not be able to support each other under the alliance obligations.

But all the other countries, since Turkey, a NATO country, will have received an attack from Russia, yes, they will pass through Greece and through other countries and strike the Russians.

And because the GPS systems and all these things will have been damaged, in case of war, the ground communication stations are struck, because those are the major targets—

Mobile phones will not be able to communicate.

The signal will not be able to reach the mobile phone directly."

What Comes After the War in Ukraine?

 

At one time, Saint Paisios reportedly spoke prophetically, saying that Europe would be dissolved and that it would be betrayed by its own friends, America and England. At the time, we all wondered how such a thing could happen. Now, we find ourselves in the process of witnessing the fulfillment of this fearful prophecy. But let me begin from the start so that we can better understand the events that are to come.

Behind everything that has been happening around us lately on a global scale—whether it is health crises and vaccines, wars beginning in Syria and now in Ukraine, or a global economic collapse that will spread like a nightmare over the entire world—behind all these things, I repeat, stands a terrible hidden global power.

It is the so-called “Pentarchy of Darkness,” a secret organization consisting of five families devoted entirely to the worship of Satan. They possess immeasurable wealth and control governments and authorities through banks and mass media, influencing economies, healthcare systems, politics, and religions.

The goal of this Pentarchy of Darkness is to establish a global government and a global religion, with the Antichrist and the False Prophet as its spiritual leaders. As part of its plan to achieve these objectives, it seeks the complete destruction of nations so that no resistance or opposition can arise from anywhere.

As unbelievable as this may sound, their destructive plans include Europe and America as well. This is because they do not want any state or alliance of states to follow a path different from the one they dictate.

For this reason, my dear Stephanos, they have placed selected individuals as leaders of nations—blind pawns, human marionettes. You can see them yourselves. They will not hesitate, because of the satanic oaths they have taken, to become ruthless killers even of their own people. Remember this.

We are now reaching the point where Saint Paisios’ prophecy is being fulfilled in the most unexpected way imaginable. The Pentarchy of Darkness has used the Anglo-Saxons, America, and England as expendable instruments to bring about the destruction of Russia and Europe before their own downfall.

Why do they want to destroy Russia? Because Russia is the only country that, due to its religion, spiritual outlook, and now because of its president, Putin, has positioned itself against them, even openly challenging what is described as the leading Rothschild family.

Europe, on the other hand, is targeted for a different reason. A united Europe under German leadership had begun to develop into a new global power. We all saw this through its increasingly independent political behavior and its distancing from its plans.

More recently, Germany’s good relations with Russia, reflected in the pipeline connecting the two countries and other developments, greatly disturbed them. All of this had to be stopped.

For this reason, England quickly left the ship of the European Union after succeeding in weakening Germany’s influence and positioning itself as a leading power in Europe.

War, therefore, became inevitable. Now that the war has begun, events will move at lightning speed. The war between Russia and Ukraine will expand and spread throughout Europe. NATO will play an active role but will suffer major defeats. All NATO countries will be forced, through the policies of America, to participate in this great war that will ultimately destroy them.

In this way, we may understand the strange words Saint Paisios once spoke to a group of Americans who visited him on Mount Athos. He reportedly said, “Americans, murderers of nations,” and then fell silent.

In this war, no country will escape unharmed. Some nations in northern and central Europe will be completely destroyed and disappear from the map. Others will be divided into many smaller states where civil conflicts will continue. Some regions will become vast, deserted wastelands.

As for the East, equally terrible events will occur there. War, bloodshed, famine, sorrow, and unimaginable suffering will spread rapidly across all the Christian nations of Europe that, according to this account, submitted true faith and the moral values of the Gospel to satanic influences.

No church leader, my dear Stephanos, dared to resist, react, and openly confess Christ. They betrayed Christ and denied the truth of the Gospel. Not only did they betray Him, but they also attempted, through threats and pressure, to impose that betrayal upon their flock.

In doing so, they provoked not only God's displeasure but also His divine wrath, particularly through what is described as denying the sanctity of Holy Communion.

All these things, my dear Stephanos, represent the spiritual side of the events and the explanation for the coming global catastrophe.

Church leaders, by accepting without resistance what are described as anti-Christian and satanic laws enacted by political leaders, undermined the foundations of Christianity and caused confusion and spiritual disorientation among countless Christians.

Now God will allow both them and us to witness the disastrous consequences of this irreverence. The era of the false Christianity that we all lived—and still live—is coming to an end. The time when the wheat will be separated from the chaff has begun.

The four critical Passovers through which everything will be judged have started. The first Passover, that of weak faith, has already passed. Do not forget that last year we even changed the day of the Resurrection celebration and observed it on Saturday instead of Sunday.

The Passover of fire and blood is coming.

The third Passover, that of famine, poverty, and destitution, is already becoming visible.

The Passover of knowledge and truth will be imposed from heaven.

Until the final Passover, my dear Stephanos, when all will truly and freely celebrate our Lord upon a ruined, devastated, and burned earth, the Lord will show the entire world who truly governs it.

Indeed, the times in which we live are extremely critical. Everything I have mentioned would only have value if it helped each one of us repent of our mistakes, change our way of life, return to God, and accept Him as the Father and guide of our lives.

And in this repentance, bishops and church leaders should not be absent—especially those who, whether through lack of faith, fear, or submission to political pressure...

THIS IS AN AMERICAN SAINT

"What is the Living Water, and what is the spring welling up to eternal life?

To understand these two concepts, I will give you an example—not from the saints, although this story itself could be considered the life of a saint—from a priest who lived in America.

This was Father Seraphim Rose. Many of you may have heard of him or read his works. Father Seraphim Rose, whose secular name was Eugene, was an intelligent, handsome, and gifted young man.

He was an excellent student, an active person, and what we might call a restless spirit.

After finishing high school, he began searching for the truth. What is truth? Where can truth be found?

He began with the Christianity he encountered in America, but he rejected it.

Why did he reject American Christianity?

Because he considered it worldly, weak, and false. In Protestantism, Anglicanism, Catholicism, and the various denominations that existed in America, he saw elements of worldliness, weakness, and insincerity. It did not satisfy him, and so he rejected Christianity.

After rejecting Christianity, he was drawn to the atheism of Nietzsche. He began studying and reading Nietzsche’s books, which were filled with atheistic ideas.

However, accepting the belief that God does not exist led him into complete despair. As he later described it, he felt as though he were living in a living hell.

He would say: “If we are born, live, and die, with nothing before and nothing after, then what is the point of living?”

He often walked beneath the stars. He loved walking at night and admiring the beauty of nature, but all of it only deepened his depression.

He would say, “I enjoy this today, but tomorrow I will not. Things exist today, and tomorrow they will be gone. Therefore, everything is meaningless.”

As a result, he turned to alcohol and became an alcoholic.

Yet even within the atheism he embraced, he felt as though God was pursuing him. Sometimes he would suddenly cry out, “Leave me alone!”—as though speaking to God.

“Stop bothering me. You do not exist.”

At one point, he climbed to the top of a high mountain, raised his fist toward the sky, cursed God, and said, “Send me to hell.”

In other words, he preferred to be in hell, where he would at least know that God exists, rather than continue living in the misery of this world, where he doubted and could not believe in God's existence.

He sank into an even greater emptiness, and his depression grew worse.

When even this failed to satisfy him, he turned to Buddhism during the 1950s.

Seraphim Rose was born in 1934. As a young man, he embraced Buddhism and, in order to immerse himself in the ancient Buddhist tradition, he taught himself Chinese and began reading ancient Chinese texts so that he could better understand Buddhism.

Yet there too he encountered only emptiness.

Again, depression overwhelmed him. He could not find the truth.

He then turned to the ancient religions. He studied all of them, but found nothing that satisfied him.

Then, in 1962, he happened to find himself outside an Orthodox church in San Francisco.

When he entered, as he later recounted, he felt something he had never felt anywhere else—in no Christian church, no Buddhist temple, and no place of worship of any other religion.

And he said to himself:

“I have arrived. I have come home.”

He felt that his journey of searching had come to an end simply by entering that church.

He then began studying Orthodoxy.

He found a spiritual father who would later become a saint: Saint John Maximovitch.

Saint John was serving as bishop in San Francisco at the time.

Gradually, Seraphim began to study more deeply.

Through his studies, he came to understand that truth is not something abstract. Truth is a Person.

Truth is Christ.

Yet the Christ he was seeking, he did not find in the various denominations and sects, but only within Orthodoxy.

He studied the Church Fathers, and whereas before he had suffered because he searched endlessly for the truth without finding it, now he suffered because he had found the truth and could not keep it to himself.

He wanted to share it with others.

He opened a bookstore in San Francisco where he distributed Orthodox Christian books.

Since most Orthodox literature was unavailable in English, he began translating works from Russian into English.

He also established a printing press and began publishing Orthodox texts in English. Many of his works were translated into Russian or written directly for Russian readers.

At that time, Russia was under communist rule. Millions of Russians secretly read the writings of the future Father Seraphim Rose.

As we have said, he later became a monk and received the name Seraphim.

He began writing his own books.

His writings influenced countless people in Russia, while in America, many learned about Orthodoxy through his work.

Thousands visited Father Seraphim Rose at the small monastery and hermitage he established in the wilderness of California, where many people were baptized and became Orthodox Christians.

In 1982, at a relatively young age, after a brief illness, Father Seraphim Rose passed into eternity.

Yet he left behind an immense legacy.

Today, many consider him the father of Orthodoxy in America and a spiritual enlightener of many Americans.

And now we come to the central question:

What is the Living Water?

The Living Water is Christ, who is the Truth.

Whoever truly tastes Him has no need to search for anything else.

Father Seraphim Rose traveled the world searching for the Living Water.

We already possess it.

Not only is it before us—we are immersed in it.

Orthodoxy is the Living Water that others are seeking.

Whoever drinks this Living Water and comes to understand the truth of Orthodoxy, which is Christ Himself, cannot keep it to himself.

Such a person becomes a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

My brothers and sisters, have we tasted this Living Water, or is it still before us while we have not yet touched it to our lips?

If we have truly tasted it, then we too will become springs of water welling up to eternal life.

We, too, will become proclaimers of the Gospel.

Through our example and our words, we will become missionaries.

Just as the Holy Samaritan Woman, Saint Photini, became an apostle and missionary, whom the Church commemorates today, along with the holy father I mentioned earlier."

EX MAGICIAN REVEALS

 

"It is impossible for a person who works as a medium to have a gift from God and be called to help others. According to the view of our Orthodox Church, this is impossible because such a person cooperates with demons.

In fact, there have been cases where, at the very moment magical rituals or acts of divination were being performed, if some Christians were praying or a Divine Liturgy was taking place, all of those ceremonies would become ineffective and come to a halt.

Did your teacher only remove spells, or did he also cast them?

Mostly, he cast them. And, to tell the truth, he never actually removed them, because he could not. He himself told me that we could never remove them because the Church is superior.

There were specific periods that he himself mentioned to me. At a time when I was not well and felt as though I was going mad, he told me about the period of theophany—from the day of theophany and for forty days afterward. Because of the great religious event of the Baptism of Jesus and the blessing of the waters, all these things, as Maros used to say, affected us.

We tried to protect and sustain ourselves with medication, tranquilizers, and painkillers because we suffered terrible pain, headaches, and a state of mental turmoil during the period of Theophany and for forty days afterward.

How do you explain this?

As I said, it can be explained. The Church can explain it even better. It is the great event and the great gift that God gives to humanity, especially to Orthodox Christians.

Through this sanctification that takes place in every Orthodox country, all spells are broken at the same time as a sign of God's gift for the baptism of His Son and for the Orthodox faithful.

Even if someone had cast spells on another person, all those spells would be undone. All the documents we had, all the cases we were working on, all the bindings and enchantments—everything was dissolved. It became, so to speak, ashes and smoke. And we suffered because of it.

What is characteristic is that, as I personally remember experiencing, and as Maros himself admitted, we both acknowledged the truth: Christ and the Church were stronger. Yet we could not leave what we were doing.

What did you tell your clients?

We would tell them various things because they came to us with serious complaints. They could see that everything had been turned upside down.

There were even cases of successful marriages that had supposedly been achieved through magic. During that period, those unions would break apart. Marriages dissolved, as did other affairs and arrangements, including inheritance matters and many other issues."

"What is your zodiac sign, Eirini?"

"I don't believe in zodiac signs at all."

"It doesn't matter."

"I don't believe in them. They are anti-Christian."

"No, they are not."

"These are magical things. I must say this as an Orthodox Christian: these things are a trap and a deception. They are magical practices. The Church opposes them because they do not agree with the Gospel.

God does not approve of them. How can I speak against the law of Christ? In the name of Christ and the Virgin Mary. Of course, we have all made mistakes, and that is why we have spiritual fathers and confession.

My children, it is wonderful to confess and receive Holy Communion. There is nothing like it. Nowadays, everyone runs to psychologists and psychiatrists. God helps greatly. He enlightens a person, and then you see things differently, truly and genuinely, in the Christian way, according to Christ.

Because when you have confessed and received Communion, your prayers are heard.

Many Christians marry Muslims."

"That is a betrayal of the soul."

"Why do you say that?"

"There are many examples. Christ Himself says so."

"Have you ended relationships in the past because of that?"

"No. They were all Christians."

"What if he were Catholic?"

"No. Catholicism is a heresy, my dear. There is only one Gospel of Christ. Catholicism is a heresy. Jehovah's Witnesses are a heresy. Orthodoxy is the true faith, the living faith.

Others talk to us about zodiac signs. Others are proud. Forgive me, Pavlos. Then there are Buddhas and various statues and figures. These are idols. They are dolls. They are false things, false gods.

There is only one God: Christ.

Whether they like it or not, I condemn these things. My faith is unwavering, firm, clear, and eternal in Christ, in the Holy Trinity, in Orthodoxy, in the Virgin Mary, and in the Holy Archangels.

Even if I had been born into a Muslim family, I would still be a Christian."

"I am Catholic, and when I come to Greece, I receive Communion in the Orthodox Church."

"Why? Do you think I will judge you? We are the same."

"We are not the same."

"We are all brothers and sisters."

"You receive communion with a wafer, whereas the Body and Blood of Christ are received as bread and wine.

And I will also say this about Muslims: many Muslims have beheaded Christians in order to force them to change their faith, and the Christians refused.

Have we ever cut off someone's head to make them become Christian? Never."

A young man from Greece had heard about Father Paisios

 A young man from Greece had heard about Father Paisios and how many people would visit him. It was said that he could perceive things about their lives, see aspects of the future, and offer a few words to each person according to their needs, helping them spiritually and emotionally.

The young man decided to visit him as well. However, he felt ashamed because, as he later admitted, he had been involved with many women, and he was afraid that Father Paisios would reveal this in front of others.

In the end, he decided to go anyway. He planned to stay until everyone else had left so that no one would hear what Father Paisios might say to him.

What happened next was the following remarkable event.