Η Αγία Ζώνη της Θεοτόκου από το Άγιο Όρος στη Χίο

ΣΕΛΙΔΕΣ ΧΙΑΚΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ

Η έξοδος από το Άγιο Όρος ιερών λειψάνων και κειμηλίων και η περιφορά τους στον ορθόδοξο λαό για προσκύνηση αποτελεί μακραίωνη παράδοση. Ιδιαίτερα μάλιστα σε περιπτώσεις επιδημιών, σεισμών και άλλων συμφορών, κατόπιν παρακλήσεως του ευσεβούς λαού, μεταφέρονται στις περιοχές που επλήγησαν προς αγιασμό και προστασία. 0 ελληνικός λαός, έχοντας βαθιά ριζωμένο το θρησκευτικό συναίσθημα, συρρέει κατά χιλιάδες στους ναούς για να προσκυνήσει με ευλάβεια και κατάνυξη τα ιερά και θαυματουργά κειμήλια του Αγίου Όρους. Επίσης, πολλές φορές περιφέρονται σε πόλεις της Ελλάδος καθώς και σε άλλες ορθόδοξες χώρες, προκειμένου να συγκεντρωθούν χρήματα για τη συντήρηση των Μοναστηριών. Το πανάρχαιο αυτό έθιμο αποκαλείται «ζητείες» και πρέπει να σημειωθεί ότι χάρη σ’αυτές κατόρθωσαν να επιβιώσουν οι Μονές του Αγίου Όρους κατά τα ζοφερά χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας.

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17. I am feeling better

21.4.1996

Yiannitsa

A year ago I had severe backache. For a while I could not even stand. I went to see a doctor and had a prayer read to me in church. A few days later I felt better. I continued to work, trying to avoid lifting heavy weights. I also went to another doctor and underwent some mecial proceedure.

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9. She had a natural birth

1/11/1995

Demitri Tirimou 3, Larnaca.

Cyprus

“My wife’s sister had some problems with her pregnancy and the doctor had advised her to stay at the clinic and give birth by a cesarean. She was 8,5 months pregnant. After some tests, the doctor diagnosed that the baby would have some problems with its heart and she had to be induced. As soon as they told me, without a second thought I gave her the ribbon of the Holy Belt.

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4. I was married for seven years and didn’t have a child

2.6.1995

M.Bogdou 18, Xanthi

“I had been married for seven years and didn’t have a child. My husband and I had tried many times to have a child and had visited various doctors in Athens and Thessaloniki. Finally at the end of our tether, you sent me a ribbon blessed by the Holy Belt of the Mother of God. I got pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby boy on the 31^st August 1993, on the feast-day of the Holy Belt.

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Contemporary miracles

The miracles referred to in this chapter took place from May 1992 to July 2007 and have been selected from the monastery’s archives.

1. It’s difficult to have kids
Fr Theotimos comes from Congo. He studied theology in Greece. He wished to have kids so much but had a problem. He asked for the ribbon blessed on the Holy Belt. He describes the result.
3.12.1995
Methonis 23, Athens
“The name of God-Man Christ must always be glorified and the name of the Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God must be honored. read more…

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9. The deadly plague is stopped
22 August 1827. Father Savvas writes: “At Enos, the deadly plague has stopped on the 15th of June with the grace of the Holy Belt”. From Enos, the Holy Belt was transported to Didimotichon. In another letter, dated 12th September, the same priest writes: “Here, the deadly plague has stopped as it did at Enos, with the grace of the Holy Belt”.
10. We have been freed from the onslaught of lucusts. read more…

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5. Fr Daniel Katounakiotis is cured of an inflammation of the kidneys.
In his book, “Contemporary Figures of the Holy Mountain”, Vol. 4, the late Archimandrite Cherubim describes how Father Daniel Katounakiotis had been miraculously cured of an acute inflammation of the kidneys. We quote the account: “No sooner did he reach Vatopedi than he suffered an acute inflammation of the kidneys. This “thorn in the flesh” afflicted him very seriously this time and he had to stay in bed for weeks.
The fathers at the monastery have been nursing him with a lot of affection. But even more affection was shown by the great Doctor of the Mountain, the Mother of God. read more…