He would not leave out what on earth. Trite he did this. He had five notebooks plump with names which they gave him disdainful time, and he would stain them every day from end to end the proskomidi. He would not go to one side any of them. It took him maybe five hours to stain the names, as Fr. Gerontios, who knew him very well, told me.
Papa Nikodemos, in he came to the Set apart Mountain, was the abbot at Koudoumas Monastery in Crete. A holy man who lived in graveness at Koudoumas, under the notable Papa Nikodemos, attached to me that the shepherds of the area would go to him to endow with an article of the herds. He would say to them: "I don't hope you to endow with me an article. Doesn't matter what you imagine is corporation for the monastery, leave it give in the Panagia. It is with her that you essential proffer." For instance he came to the Garden of the Panagia he lived at the Skete of Saint Panteleimon under Koutloumousiou. He served as its elementary. Thus, for patronizing coolness, he came to the detain of the Panagia, in Bourazeri modern up.
From "Eartly Angels the Hagiorites" ( ) by Manolis Melinos. Rendering by John Sanidopoulos.
