Images of Sts. Peter and Paul miraculously appear on wall in Melitopol church

Moscow, March 23, 2017

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Images of the holy apostles Peter and Paul were discovered on the walls underneath their icons during a routine cleaning of St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church in Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine, reports the press service of the Zaporizhia Diocese.

“We do not stop witnessing miracles occurring even in the age of information technology,” commented Vladyka Luke. “A miracle is an appearance of Divine Providence in our life which is impossible to explain scientifically. Being rationally inexplicable, the true meaning of a miracle is revealed only to the spiritual eye of man.”

The images discovered in the church resemble x-rays in appearance, but what light could have passed through the icons to leave a negative on the walls is unknown. The figures of the apostles on the icons and on the walls behind them are symmetrical, but the icons are not under direct sunlight and the icons are in no way transparent.

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In his work Spirit, Soul, and Body, St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) of Simferopol writes scientifically, from the position of a mind enlightened by grace, about how a person’s cognitive abilities can confirm the truth of Divine revelation as preserved in the Orthodox faith. He goes on to scientifically demonstrate the existence of a purely spiritual energy, writes the diocesan press service, from which arise all material forms of energy, and through them, matter itself. “For a believer, this spiritual energy is represented as omnipotent Divine love,” writes the diocese.

There are other known cases in Ukraine, such as the “Look Down on Humility” Icon of the Mother of God which was imprinted on glass in Kiev’s Entrance Monastery in 1994, and the imprinting of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God on a wall in a parish in Kamensk earlier this month.

The Lord sends us such signs, the diocese writes, for the strengthening of our faith, but it is necessary to understand that seeking for miracles is dangerous. “The most important thing should be that God manages to get through to our hearts that there is a Church which has survived against all odds, which lives, uniting people to eternal life, trying to be the salt of the earth, and fulfilling its calling, for the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

3/23/2017

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