Miracles of Saint Nikephoros - Amazed by the Truth

Name: Nicholas Tzanakakis

Ordained Name: Nicephorus

Ordained Date: 1916

Born: 1890 in Serikari of Chania, Crete, Greece

Hansen’s Disease: 1909 (age 16)

Died: January 4, 1964 (age 74)

Parents: unknown – they both died when Nicholas was 13 years old

Name Day: January 4

Saint Nikephoros the Leper, a powerful intercessor for Covid-19 and every disease

O venerable father Nicephorus the Leper, your struggles and courageous asceticism dumbfounded heaven’s angels. Like another Job in pain, you endured and gave glory to God. And so, he arranged for you a resplendent crown of miracles. Rejoice, O guide of monastics! Rejoice, O prism of light! Rejoice, O delightful fragrance radiating from your relics! Saint Nikiphoro was confined to his bed, blind and in pain, people came to him for a blessing and he taught them: “My children, do you pray? And how do you pray? …with the prayer of Jesus you should pray, with the ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me’. Thus you should pray.”

1957-1964 time frame: Fr. Eumenios was helping Father Nikephoros get to ready for bed, he then went to his room to rest. He did not fall asleep immediately because he had an unsettled feeling like he had forgotten do to something. He got up to check on Father Nikephoros but did not want to knock on the door incase he had fallen asleep, nor did he do the customary monastic practice by saying “Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy on us,” and wait for the reply: “Amen” before entering in. Slowly he opened the door and witnessed a miracle. Father Nikephoros was floating a meter above the ground, with his hands lifted up in prayer. His face shone like the sun.

2011: Demetrios, a boy of seventeen, suffered from intense pain in his genitals. As he was ashamed to reveal his problem to his parents, he kept it to himself. Only when his pain got unbearable, and could no longer endure it, he spoke of it to them. They rushed him to St. Savas’ Hospital on Epiphany day* of 2011. After a number of medical exams the doctors said that there was nothing they could do, as cancer had already spread throughout his body! He had only a few days, or weeks at the most, to live.

Father Eulogios’ mother, young Demetrios’ aunt, devoutly loving St Niceforus, gave herself to unceasingly reading of the book “Niceforus the Leper, the bright contestant of forbearance” over and over again, as a prayer to him for her nephew’ s recovery.

Day by day the boy’ s condition began to ameliorate, as his pains started decreasing all the more. A little before Easter, his parents took him to the Hospital again, to check the status of his health. This time however, the doctors confirmed to his parents, that Demetrios had been thoroughly healed! To be sure of it, they repeated the tests once more, with the same wondrous results.

The whole family was overwhelmed with joy. The boy’s aunt, not knowing how to express her gratitude to the Saint, started shouting in excitement: “It’s St. Niceforus’ miracle! It’s St. Niceforus’ miracle!”

She then asked her son the priest monk, to find an icon of the Saint for her, so that she always have it with her as a guardian and protector.

January 2020: Miracle of Saint Nikiphoro the Leper who cured a Physician from the covid infection.

March 2020: A woman I know, Mrs. Calliope Hatzigriva living in Larissa, after reading the biograrhy of St. Niceforus, informed me that, when she became pregnant, the doctors told her that she would have a girl.

One night St. Niceforus came to her dream and told her that she would give birth to a boy who should be called Niceforus.The woman answered that her doctor told her that she would have a girl. The Saint insisted that she would have a boy and name him Niceforus. She woke up quite puzzled and kept wondering, what the meaning of this dream could be. After some time, when she was due to visit her doctor again, she underwent the required medical tests about her pregnancy. Then, the doctor told her that she would have a baby boy. This was proved to be true when the boy was born.

April 2, 2020: The First Night “At 4 o’clock that night I fell asleep. In my dream, he visited me – Saint Nikephoros the Leper. I recognized him immediately. I saw him in his black dew, standing up, holding a golden cross in his right hand. He addressed me with the words: “Warn all Christians to pray to me, but repeatedly. Let them also read the services. There is a cure and this is the Holy Communion. There’s also a herb to drink, it’s thyme, it kills viruses. And in any case, be sure to visit the house of God at this difficult time, because there is no contagion there and no one can be infected. ”

The next night, he came again and said this time that many Christians, and not only, had prayed to him because he had also spread through social networks about his appearance in Greece. He also told me to tell my son to pray to him, but not only once, as he had once said to him, – that is not enough. “Many times,” the saint repeated. The next day I asked my child, “How many times have you prayed to St. Nikiphoros?” And he replied that only once in the morning. I explained to him that it was not enough.

The third night I saw him again. But this time, the most important thing I understood was that Bulgaria would be protected from the virus. I turned to him with the question: “Will all of Bulgaria be preserved?” He said to me, “Yes!” At that moment I saw our country as a map, and he stood over it, over Southern Bulgaria, and more precisely somewhere over Plovdiv. And he said, “Ring the bells, ring the bells, ring the bells!” I asked, “Are there bells in the Diocese of Plovdiv?” “Yes!” He said very briefly and affirmatively. Then he ascended to heaven, and with his golden cross in his hand, he blessed from above. From the very cross, a light came down and illuminated the whole country. The last thing he said was, “It will pass!”