We are in the year 1926, Christmas day with the new calendar, of Saint Spyridon with the old one. It has been about two years since the violent imposition of the Gregorian calendar on the Church of Greece. Many believers resist and remain faithful to church traditions. In Mandra, a small village in Attica (Greece), some residents went to their church to honor the memory of Saint Spyridon, but the police, following an order from the Archdiocese, had locked the door of the church with chains. Then the inhabitants lit the candles they had with them and stuck them on the door of the temple. And, oh, what a miracle! The chains fell down and the temple door opened!
Three years later (1929), on the same day, a great miracle happened in the church of Saint Nicholas in Karystos, Evia. While the priest reading the Christmas Gospel, the giant icon of St. Spyridon, rose in the air to the dome and then with a tremendous clack fell and fastened in place, while a cloud appeared in front of the icon. The priest Fr. Vassilios Bakosis and the faithful were terrified and hurried to explore the image. The next day, they were ordered not to talk about the incident, while they also disappeared the image, saying that the nail was to blame…
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