Greeks Seek Strength in the Powers of a Revered Monk to Predict Events
By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH
SOUROTI,
Greece—Legend has it that nearly three decades ago, a bearded Orthodox
Christian mystic visiting here made an unsettling prediction: Greece in the
future would experience a "great disruption and confusion," followed
by hunger and political turmoil.
Believers
say this grim vision of Elder Paisios, an ascetic monk who died in 1994, was
actually a prescient glimpse of the upheaval now gripping this debt-racked
country—helping fuel a surge of interest in the Orthodox holy man by Greeks
struggling to make sense of a brutal financial crisis.
Elder
Paisios, who spent much of his adult life as a hermit on the monastic peninsula
of Mount Athos in northeastern Greece, has become a popular sensation—with
tales of his prognostications and miracles he is said to have performed posted
online and recounted in popular books. (Περισσότερα στις διευθύνσεις που ακολουθούν).
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