Efpalio, Greece, October 4, 2017
Photo: 4.bp.blogspot.com The wife of the ill man, Mr. Sotiris traveled with a group of pilgrims and a Fr. Theoklitos, to pray and celebrate the Divine Liturgy. “I had been ill for a long time, and doctors couldn’t figure out what I had. It had gotten to the point where I couldn’t drive the car, or go shopping with my kids,” Mr. Sotiris recalled.
“I sent my wife to the Panagia [Theotokos] to pray for help, because I was close to despair,” he stated. “As I was lying there in pain, suddenly at 9 in the morning I felt a light and joy together! I immediately realized that the Virgin had sent her grace. I made the Sign of the Cross and got up, which I did without any pain,” he said with joy.
“I felt strength and well-being. I got dressed, I washed, I combed my hair, and waited for my wife, full of joy and emotion. She came home at noon. When she saw me up and about, she began to cry from gratitude to God,” the healed man related.
In response to his miraculous healing, Mr. Sotiris went to the local Agrinio market to buy the largest candle he could find. “They looked me, but I didn’t care. I wanted to go, if possible, somewhere high and shout my thanks to God and to the Panagia,” he exclaimed, adding, “Let all people hear it and believe!”
I had a wonderful experience with the Panagia icon in one of the Greek Orthodox cathedrals .
I had not mentioned it to anyone so far as I was not sure whether it was a miracle or not.
We (myself and wife )used to attend the akathist services in the evening.During the last day when we went to venerate the icon at the end when my wife was about to kiss the icon. suddenly something happened and the oil lamp attached to the icon dripped oil on my wife. We are very sure that she did not touch the icon so that it can be shaken. We were so much stuck with wonder,did not tell anyone fearing mockery.