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Saint Nektarios never met Nietzsche...translated

November 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Stelios Koukos writes

On November 9, 1920, Agios Nektarios (1846-1920), bishop of Pentapolis, the multi-miracle worker, fell asleep in the Aretaiion hospital in Athens, while on November 10, 1924, the uprooted Cappadocian Hieromonk Agios Arsenios of Farasso, a legend among his compatriots, fell asleep in Corfu Cappadocians.

Agios Nektarios, mentally "multiple traumatized" by the weak human attitudes against him, began to cause a miraculous uproar throughout Greece, but also beyond it.

Thus, this whole wave of miracles brought in 1961 his official canonization by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

The elevation of the itinerant Metropolitan of Pentapolis to a Saint of the Church, a hierarch who was essentially expelled from the Patriarchate of Alexandria, was due to the many and varied miracles he performed and in fact consecutively and, of course, by divine favor.

The nectar of holiness that flooded him overflowed and healed and satisfied every disease and every need they had!

Let us mention the appearance of the Saint, as another Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, in the midst of rough seas on a ship that the captain had already given him...

Source: Μητρόπολις Αρκαλοχωρίου, Καστελλίου και Βιάννου  ·  Read the full story →
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