Venerable David of Evia and the Unbelieving Pilgrim

Hermitage of Venerable David

Someone from our village had a son who was an officer and one summer we had gone to the Monastery of Venerable David, for the feast of Saint Kosmas Aitolos [August 24]. We had stayed, as a group, there in the Monastery and he and his son were in another group who had gone on foot to the hermitage of Venerable David.

This fellow villager of ours was old.

They explained to him, when they went to the hermitage, that Elder Iakovos [Tsalikis] stayed here in the evenings where he read the Supplicatory Canon, and he hung his cassock there on a nail. There was still a nail from the old nails in the stones of the cave.

"Stella, Wake Up, Venerable David Has Come From Evia!"

By Elder Gabriel, 

Abbot of the Monastery of the Venerable David in Evia

(Excerpt from a sermon delivered on 10/10/2020 at the Church of Saint George and Iakovos in Ammos of Beroea.)

A 21-year-old girl, a student, Stella, was hit by a car at the end of August 2018 and was in a coma in the Intensive Care Unit, at the Red Cross in Athens.

Her relatives from Cyprus, who knew us, asked us to go to the hospital to bless her with the Honorable Head of Venerable David.

Indeed, we went.

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Midnight Visitations of Venerable David the Elder to Saint Iakovos Tsalikes

 

6 Contemporary Miracles and Appearances of Venerable David of Evia

 

"Stella, Wake Up, Venerable David Has Come From Evia!"

 

A Vision of Venerable David in the Form of Saint Iakovos of Evia

Two Most Recent Miracles of Venerable David of Evia and Saint Iakovos Tsalikes

 

Venerable David of Evia and the Unbelieving Pilgrim

A Homily of Thanksgiving Delivered by the Abbot of the Monastery of the Venerable David After It Was Delivered from a Devastating Fire on August 4, 2021

 

A Fascinating Interview from an Empirical Perspective Regarding Holy Relics with Saint Iakovos Tsalikes 

 

Synaxis of All Saints of Euboea (Evia) 

 

 

A Homily of Thanksgiving Delivered by the Abbot of the Monastery of the Venerable David After It Was Delivered from a Devastating Fire on August 4, 2021

The following sermon I translated was delivered by Elder Gabriel, Abbot of the Monastery of the Venerable David in Evia, during the Great Vespers for the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Savior, on the 5th of August 2021, the day after the great miracle of the deliverance of the Monastery, in a wondrous way, from the fiery flame which engulfed it, on the 4th of August. Not even its surrounding chapels were harmed by the fire. As one pious woman in Evia commented after her own home was consumed by the flames of the fire, "It doesn't bother me, as long as our Monastery doesn't burn." After the flames passed around the Monastery, the Abbot and Fathers returned with joy with the relics of their beloved Saints.

It should be added that on August 7th, after a litany with the icon of Saint John the Russian in Prokopi of Evia, where the Church of Saint John the Russian is located, to deliver it from the devastating fire, it began to rain so much that it extinguished the flames, which the people also view as a miracle, and were moved to tears by.

Flames continue to burn throughout Greece and its surroundings.

Two Most Recent Miracles of Venerable David of Evia and Saint Iakovos Tsalikes

In a recent interview with Maria Yiachnaki for the radio program "Epikairotita", Elder Gabriel, the current Abbot of the Monastery of Venerable David in Evia, reported two of the most recent miracles of Venerable David and Saint Iakovos Tsalikes, which took place within the past few weeks of 2021.

The first miracle concerns a 23 year old young man named John. On January 6, 2021 John participated in the Cross retrieval competition which followed the Sanctification of the Waters ceremony at the coastal town of Amarynthos. His goal was to capture the Cross then go to the Monastery of the Venerable David in Evia to venerate the relics of Venerable David and Saint Iakovos. As John rushed to dive into the water to retrieve the Cross first, he somehow injured his head and neck really bad, landing him in the hospital with critical injuries and in a coma. John's young friends and fellow competitors decided to put their faith in God to deliver and heal their friend, so on Saturday the 9th of January they drove two hours to the Monastery of the Venerable David, as John had hoped to have done, to venerate the relics of Saint Iakovos Tsalikes and Venerable David and seek their intercessions and aid. When they arrived, they found the Monastery to be closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, so they knocked on the door. They explained to the Abbot their situation and asked to venerate the relics of the Saints. The Abbot allowed them in, then he brought out the skull of Venerable David, and blessed a shirt that belonged to John which the boys had brought with them, then they all venerated the relic. The Abbot then gave them holy oil, which they brought to the mother of John, who rubbed the head and neck of her son with it, then they placed the blessed shirt of John on him. Immediately John began to recover from that moment. As of January 15th, John is still recovering from his injury, but he is no longer in critical condition, and many people all over Greece are praying for him.

A Fascinating Interview from an Empirical Perspective Regarding Holy Relics with Saint Iakovos Tsalikes

 

St. Iakovos processing with the skull of Venerable David

The following interview with Saint Iakovos Tsalikes is an excerpt from a recorded interview on the radio station of the Church of Greece conducted by Protopresbyter Fr. Constantine Stratigopoulos.

Fr. Iakovos: One day they will be resurrected, my Fr. Constantine, according to the will and command of God, as our Christ also told us: "and everyone will be resurrected." And those bare bones that gush forth healings, within which sacred relics lived or lives an immortal soul, no matter how much they rot in the soil and in the earth, one day these relics and these bones will come to life, Fr. Constantine, and they will be resurrected and presented again to the Master Christ as, forgive me, we were at first but also with the body, and these relics will come to life.

6 Contemporary Miracles and Appearances of Venerable David of Evia

The miraculous presence of Venerable David continues unabated in our day. From the book of miracles of the Saint, which is kept at the Monastery of the Venerable David the Elder in Evia, we list below a few of his many daily miracles:

1. Young John Achilleas Makris, from Kerasia in Agia Anna, was suffering from a very serious skin disease. Doctors had failed to offer him any effective help. His faithful mother brought him to the monastery and begged the priest of the monastery to do a Divine Liturgy and Holy Unction for her. After the service of the Holy Mysteries, the skin of young John was miraculously cleansed.