Orthodox Parables and Stories: Miracle of the Cross

On August 19, 1996, on the Feast of Transfiguration, the spouses Alexander and Irina came to the Cross from Moscow. Alexander suffered from severe attacks of renal colic, but doctors found no cause for his illness. Walking around many holy places and not having received relief, Alexander and his wife came with last hope to the Life-Giving Cross.

We ordered and attended an molieben, and the next day went to Moscow. They left calm and confident that everything would be fine now. Alexander told his wife: “Where else will I be healed, if not by not by Lord’s Cross?” But on the road he again had a very strong attack, he barely had the strength to get home. At home, the pain suddenly abated, and soon a large, about a centimeter, stone came out, in the form of an anchor, with two sharp ends. The bouts of pain stopped. Acquaintances and doctors were very surprised, then such notches on a stone could not come out on its own, it would certainly have to cling to the walls of the canal. Alexander and Irina have since come to the Cross of the Lord for every feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

From the records of the nuns of the compound of St. Nicholas Pereyaslavsky Convent.