One afternoon, Father Eumenios felt an unbearable pain in his stomach, to the point of despair. He told me how he was cured:
“I didn’t know what to do. My stomach had never hurt me before. So I went into the Church, stood in front of the icon of the Holy Unmercenaries,* and began to cross my stomach and ask the Holy Unmercenaries to make me well. I crossed myself for over four hours. Then I sat down to rest for a while, and fell asleep. This is when I saw the Holy Unmercenaries in white shirts, like doctors, performing an operation on me. They took out my stomach and showed it to me. Immediately afterwards I woke up and was fine. Since then it hasn’t hurt me at all.”
Source: From the book of Monk Simon, Father Eumenios, the Good Shepherd and Wonderworker. Translation by John Sanidopoulos.
“I didn’t know what to do. My stomach had never hurt me before. So I went into the Church, stood in front of the icon of the Holy Unmercenaries,* and began to cross my stomach and ask the Holy Unmercenaries to make me well. I crossed myself for over four hours. Then I sat down to rest for a while, and fell asleep. This is when I saw the Holy Unmercenaries in white shirts, like doctors, performing an operation on me. They took out my stomach and showed it to me. Immediately afterwards I woke up and was fine. Since then it hasn’t hurt me at all.”
Source: From the book of Monk Simon, Father Eumenios, the Good Shepherd and Wonderworker. Translation by John Sanidopoulos.
* Father Eumenios served as the priest of the Chapel of the Holy Unmercenaries, which celebrates on November 1st, at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in the suburb of Agia Varvara in Athens.
