On November 8th 1993, the feast of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Eldress Makaria Desypris, who had discovered the relics of Saint Ephraim of Nea Makri after a revelation from the Saint himself in the 1950's, was sitting in her cell when she “quite unexpectedly,” as she herself said, felt "a bitter pain in my heart, and before the first one had even passed, immediately a second, and a third (i.e., pain).
I realized that the end of my life had drawn near — or rather, that this indeed was the end of my life — and I turned, so that I might make the sign of the Cross and commend my spirit to my Lord. Before I managed to form the first movement of the Cross, however, I saw Saint Ephraim bent over me.
Immediately he rises (i.e., the Saint), and after taking a breath, he breathed into my shoulder, where there is an artery connecting to our heart.
I felt the course of the air three times within the artery, which was traveling directly to the center of the heart."
She saw, as by a miracle, her heart open — “completely open,” the Eldress said.
You will find the Elderess’s testimony verbatim in 'Visions and Miracles of the Holy Great Martyr Ephraim the Wonderworker', Volume VI, Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, Mount Amomon, Attica, 1994, p. 26.
I realized that the end of my life had drawn near — or rather, that this indeed was the end of my life — and I turned, so that I might make the sign of the Cross and commend my spirit to my Lord. Before I managed to form the first movement of the Cross, however, I saw Saint Ephraim bent over me.
Immediately he rises (i.e., the Saint), and after taking a breath, he breathed into my shoulder, where there is an artery connecting to our heart.
I felt the course of the air three times within the artery, which was traveling directly to the center of the heart."
She saw, as by a miracle, her heart open — “completely open,” the Eldress said.
You will find the Elderess’s testimony verbatim in 'Visions and Miracles of the Holy Great Martyr Ephraim the Wonderworker', Volume VI, Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, Mount Amomon, Attica, 1994, p. 26.
