Orthodox Parables and Stories

A few years after the death of St. Nectarios, his secretary Kostas came to my house one summer, and we talked for a long time. So he informed us. The body of St. Nectar after his death was not embalmed and brought to the island at about 18 o’clock. It was already quite dark. The coffin was carried on hand from the port itself. They carried everything: men, women, workers, and fathers - everything! All Aegina gathered here, and everyone cried inconsolably. Everyone who carried the coffin back then said that it was very easy for them, the body seemed completely weightless, pacified and fragrant.

On the day of the burial, when Archimandrite Panteleimon Faostinis uttered a farewell word at the tomb, he took the right hand of St. Nectarios, raised it and made it a sign of the cross, as if blessing the people. “Bless, Holy Father Nektarios, your people who have come to guide you!” Said Fr. Panteleimon and baptized with the hand of a saint all of us. And the hand easily made all movements, as if it were alive! But it has already been several days after death ...

Dimitris Pavlineris
Aegina, June 28, 1987

From a book:
Manolis Melinos
“I spoke with Saint Nectarios”,
ed. Holy Trinity. Sergius Lavra 1995