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Σε έντυπη μορφή (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-960-6890-49-9
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Author: Аnargyros J. Kalliatsos
2nd edition: April 2015
A few words
In a charming, personal style, Mr. Kalliatsos informs us about many events of the ever memorable father Porphyrios’ life. He had personal knowledge of those events, and thus, he helps us enter the space of his secret experiences and understand the salvific teaching of our holy Church.
Behind the lines of Mr. Kalliatsos’ personal writing, there is a precious treasure of father Porphyrios’ teaching and advice, very beneficial to all of us. So we were happy to undertake the republication of this book, and now, we present it to you in the hope it helps you in your spiritual life. May father Porphyrios speak to each one of us through the lines of this book and tell us what is useful and beneficial to our souls.
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
The ever memorable father Porphyrios was born in 1906 in the village Aghios Ioannis in Karystia, a county of Euboea. At the age of twelve he went to Mount Athos, where he lived as a monk for about seven years. Then, he got seriously ill, and his spiritual fathers sent him to a monastery outside Athos. The Archbishop of Sinai, Porphyrios III, met him there and having noticed his virtues and the divine gifts God had endowed him with at such a young age, ordained him a priest. He was only twenty years old.
Father Porphyrios served as a priest in monasteries of Euboea until 1940. Then, he was appointed chaplain at saint Gerasimos’ church in Athens Polyclinic, near Omonia Square (Socrates and Piraeus streets). He served there for thirty three years. After retiring, he continued officiating and confessing in the ancient and desolate chapel of saint Nicholas at Callisia, near Athens on mount Penteli, until 1978, when he had a heart attack. After that, he stayed in friends’ houses in Athens for several months until 1979. Then he settled in Milessi, where he started building the convent “The Transfiguration of the Saviour.”
In the early summer of 1991 he left for Mount Athos, where he had kept a cell since 1984. On the 2nd of December 1991, he passed away in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in his cell at Kavsokalyvia on Mount Athos. The following day he was buried simply and quietly, as he wished.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 13
Translator’s note 15
Prologue to the fourth edition 17
A few words about the fifth edition 19
As a Prologue 21
A short biography of father Porphyrios 23
Our first acquaintance 25
The first miracle 28
Nineteen treatments of radiation 29
God exists 30
An operation without anaesthetic 31
The priest’s well 33
The range of Papouli’s prayer 35
The book of saint John of the Ladder 41
He foresaw his mother’s death 45
Your father was right 46
The appointment for prayer 47
The bright star 50
The Holy Unction and the X-Ray examination of the attendants 51
Father Porphyrios reads my brother-in-law’s thoughts 54
“You are not going to America” 56
The Epitaph and the neurotic priest 59
How Divine Liturgy was officiated 61
“You will go to Kamena Vourla in vain. Your mother will not have any baths.” 64
Father Porphyrios healed me from iridocyclitis 66
He foresaw my father’s death 68
My mother’s death and father Porphyrios’ phone call 75
Sorrows do not come as single spies but in legions 76
The biggest and best mansion! 78
The prostrations and the abdominal muscles 79
The present for my name day 81
The cross with the Precious Wood 83
The example of obedience 91
The dead daughter of the priest 93
“The girl will be well, get married,
and have two children” 95
Papouli reads the mind of the witnesses and reveals the two operations of a man 97
Papouli tastes the underground water 102
The healing of the little boy and the check 105
An immediate intervention of father Porphyrios 109
Father Porphyrios the …nutritionist! 110
The healing of the student suffering from cancer 113
The oil lamp of life 117
The man who had a bath after eighteen years! 118
The child of prayers 121
Parents and children 123
“I don’t love you! Go away, and don’t ever come back!” 126
The night visit 133
The sketch of the Holy Convent and the return of the …prodigal son 136
Insistence and the bottle 141
Father Porphyrios acts like a local anaesthetic 146
Father Porphyrios was watching our prayers 149
The empty tank pours out petrol! 153
Father Porphyrios’ books and preferences 154
The appearance of saint Gerasimos 156
The loss of the handbag and the honest taxi driver 157
Father Porphyrios at the Caravel Hotel 158
Father Porphyrios and the snakes 160
Father Porphyrios and the thunderbolts 164
“If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you” 165
“Pray for those who hate us and those who love us” 168
“My Lord, raise my soul paralysed in all sins…” 169
The last appearance 175
The last meeting and the last kiss 177
Father Porphyrios’ last words 180
The first miracle after his passing away 181
Father Porphyrios’ troparion 182
Father Porphyrios’ farewell letter to his spiritual children 183
APPENDIX I
Letters - Reviews 185
TWO MIRACLES 187
An account of my ill health in 1996 and my recovery through a miracle brought about by holy father Porphyrios. 187
My experience of the miracle 191
Father Porphyrios and my leg’s healing 193
LETTERS TO THE AUTHOR 197
“I had the blessing to get to know the meek, benevolent
and truly worthy minister of the Highest.” 197
“Many beneficial words come out of your book.” 198
“You have acquainted us with the Saint of our age.” 199
“Your book is a treasure.” 200
BOOK REVIEWS 203
From the newspaper The News of Cephalonia - Ithaca for the first edition. 203
From the same newspaper for the second edition. 204
From Mr. P. M. Sotirchos for the first edition. 204
APPENDIX II
Father Porphyrios’ Photos 207