Miracle Concerning St. Theodosius the Confessor
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In 1998, Metropolitan
Kirykos traveled for the first time to Stavropol. When he arrived, he
was amazed to be welcomed by the ringing of church-bells. This amazed
him because he had not told anyone that he was planning to go to
Stavropol. Metropolitan Kirykos keeps his travel plans a complete
secret, and arrives whenever he arrives. Metropolitan Kirykos did not
even plan to go to Stavropol. He simply decided at the last minute,
since he was in Voronezh, to travel down to Stavropol to venerate the
relics of Theodosius the Confessor (a Catacomb saint who reposed in
1948). He wished to venerate his relics because he had read the life of
this elder, and admired him. When Metropolitan Kirykos asked why the
bells were ringing, the people replied that they did not know he was
arriving, and they are not even sure who rang the bells. No one admitted
to ringing them. It was as if they were ringing on their own, to show
their joy that a True Orthodox Bishop was visiting Stavropol for the
first time since the repose of the Catacomb Bishops. Almost
immediately, a very old nun approached the Metropolitan and handed to
him an artophorion, an epitrachelion and a cross. When Metropolitan
Kirykos asked why she was giving these to him, the nun replied that in
1948, a few days before St. Theodosius the Confessor reposed, he asked
her to take these items and place them in a certain box in the cellar,
and to not let anyone know where they are. St. Theodosius then told
her that in exactly 50 years a Greek bishop will arrive with the
sounding of bells, and that she (the nun) is to then go down into the
cellar, find the box, and give these articles to the Greek bishop. St.
Theodosius then reposed three days later. METROPOLITAN KYRIKOS IN RUSSIA
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