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Thousands of Turkish pilgrims to Saint George the Prince!!! 

January 28, 2011 What happens every year on April 23, that is, Saint George's Day, in Turkey, can only be characterized as a "modern miracle": because how else can one call the crowding of tens of thousands of Turks (see the photo on the left ), who wait endless hours in order to worship the miraculous icon of Saint George of Koudounas, giving parallel notes with their supplications! As characteristically mentioned in the "Neon" publication on the subject, " even if it snowed, I would still come to Ai-Georgi today," Sema tells me. She is a Muslim, she believes in Allah but also in the miracles of Saint George of Koudounas! Last year she asked him for a house and he gave it to her! Every year on April 23, thousands of Turks flock to Prince and make their wish to the Saint. Shema was handing out sugar at the exit of the church. "I came here to thank him," she tells me. He first heard about the miraculous saint on Turkish television last year. He saw the queues of Turks waiting outside the church for hours to light a candle and make their wish. It was April 23, but he decided to go even the other day. "It's a matter of faith. The saint heard me and fulfilled my wish," Shema tells me. He will go next year to make another wish. And until then she will read in Turkish the New Testament that some Protestants gave her outside the monastery. "I want to learn about other people's religions," Shema tells me. The majority of the Muslim flock of Saint George of Koudounas consists of women with deep faith. Even headscarves stood out in church praying with their palms open to the sky, just like Muslims. On my way up to the monastery, I saw women climbing up unrolling thread to the entrance of the church. "What does thread mean ?" , I asked one of them. She looked into my eyes and immediately turned her face away. Then I approached another one that held oil. "Will you take it to the saint ?" , I asked her. I was shocked to see that she did the same. She looked at me and turned her face away. A lady coming down from the monastery explained to me. "You shouldn't talk while you're climbing either. You can only talk on the way back. When you will have left the wish behind." I looked around me. Everyone was going up to Ai-Georgi! In another article that is worth reading, this one by the well-known journalist Maya Tsoklis, the following is mentioned: "So I decided, without knowing the distance, to go to Ai Giorgi Koudounas on foot. Next to the area where the carriages are parked, I found the church of Panagia. It was Holy Wednesday. The service was attended by five people out of the forty Romans who live permanently on the island and to think that at the beginning of the 20th century the Romans of Prince reached 15,000...? After the counter, I asked a lady about the Muslim pilgrimage to Ai George Koudounas. “I am impressed, my child,” he said to me, “this evil in the last 15 years has been done. In our time, where such things. Only we Orthodox went to Ai George...? How did they get together now? You didn't see what they sell: bells and golden keys to open houses. Did you go see it? From the bottom to the top they make a whole bunch of thread. I don't know what to say... ?" , he added.” Those who have visited the city, will have noticed the existence of many "Turks", who spoke Greek fluently, secretly wore crosses, and kept Byzantine images in their houses: they are the so-called "crypto-Christians", who, under the fear of the... Jews kept it hidden, but their faith is alive. Many of them are Greeks from Constantinople, who preferred to convert to Islam for the eyes of the world, in order not to leave their beloved city, due to the terrible persecution of Christians in 1955. Others - and here is the important issue - they are Turks, who became Christians in secret, especially in recent years: the sales of the Holy Bible IN TURKISH reached 8,000,000 (!!!) last year, while the belief is common, even among the most fanatical Muslims, that the Christians multiply continuously! _ of Journalist Nikos Heiladakis, which took place in the Municipality of Thermi and was broadcast by Television Station 4e of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki, regarding Orthodoxy in today's Turkey. The Journalist, with many years of research, with fully documented evidence, many of which are published by the Turkish press itself, and even with videos from Turkish TV shows, revealed another, completely unknown and buried side of reality in today's Turkey, during which dozens, hundreds are now openly baptized Orthodox Christians, thousands are those who go to Orthodox pilgrimages, Churches and Holy Masses, while prominent Turks watch the Divine Liturgy in awe!!!! BEST-SELLER …; THE GOSPEL Nikos Cheiladakis mentioned numerous, specific and named cases of Muslims who asked to be baptized Christians, while he presented the revealing data of a Turkish newspaper investigation, which records only in the last three years in Turkey the outrageous number of 8,000,000 sales of Holy Scriptures, in the Turkish language!!! ( p.s. which shows that there are really many millions of Crypto-Christians in Turkey, while according to the Prophecies of Saint Kosmas about "1/3 of the Turks who will become Christians" and based on the current population, it seems that it is approximately 15 to 20 million souls!!!) SAINT GEORGE OF KOUDOUNAS Mr. Cheiladakis also presented with compelling videos of Turkish channels, the literally thousands of Turkish "Muslims", who flood the Church of Saint George of Koudounas, leaving prayers, worshiping the holy icons, and going in endless queues to be anointed with the oil from the Saint's candlestick!!! THE POWER OF THE CATACOMBS Another surprising case is the one near Adana, which, as Nikos Cheiladakis mentioned, gathers hundreds of Turkish patients, who are cured by a woman, who confessed to Turkish Television that she derives her healing power from a catacomb-cave, where 7 Christian Martyrs were sanctified!!! THE SANCTIFICATION OF TAXIARCHIS MICHAEL The most shocking of all, however, is what the reputable Journalist reported about Sebastia, starting from the Synaxari of the Archangel Michael, where the healing of a rich man is mentioned at the Consecration of Taxiarchis in Sebastia! There, in that most miraculous Agiasma, a so-called Holy Temple was built, a marvel of architecture, which, however, no longer exists. But there is the SANCTUARY of the BRIGADIER, filled with hundreds of small fish, which lick the wounds, or the places of illness of the tens of thousands of Turks, who go there from all over the world and get well, entering the SANCTUARY!!! In fact, the Turks have built hotels and rooms to take advantage of the "therapeutic" tourism that comes even from Russia !!! "NO MEDIA HAS ACCEPTED TO SHOW MY MATERIAL"