the monastery's catholicon and close the door. He quickly ran to the window.
His eyes widened at what he saw. Saint Nouflios was
five or six years old when he found himself in a convent. Because he was small, he was hungry
more often than the others and would run to the refectory to ask for bread. The
refectory noticed that the child often took bread and disappeared.
He must be feeding some animal. He thought, and decided to follow him to see
where the bread was going. He saw him enter the monastery's catholicon and close
the door. He quickly ran to the window. His eyes widened at what he saw
. The little one was chatting with the infant Jesus in the iconostasis.
"I brought you a loaf of bread today too, but no one feeds you, not even
your mother." He reached out and gave him a slice of bread. The baby Jesus reached out
, took the bread. and the bread disappeared into the icon. The
waiter, with a soul full of surprise and awe, ran to the abbot. He told
the abbot about the incredible miracle his eyes had seen. The abbot gave
orders not to give the child any bread. When he would implore them to
tell him to go and ask the one you fed until yesterday. The next day,
little Noufrios saw that they were not giving him bread.
He immediately ran to the church and in front of the icon he spoke to Christoulis.
My Christoulis, they are not giving me bread. They told me to tell you to give me some of
yours. Now where you will find it I do not know. And the miracle baby
Jesus stretched out his hand from the arms of the Virgin Mary. He gave him a
huge loaf of bread so big that he could not lift it. It smelled so
musky that the heavenly aroma spread throughout the monastery and the surrounding area.
Surprised and amazed, the monks saw the five-year-old Onufrios take the
huge loaf out. Two monks ran to help. The heavenly
bread was very heavy. For many days they ate, they were full, but the bread was and remained
unspent. Since then, all the monks have
greatly revered little Onufrios. They knew that with his increasing age
his holiness would also increase. He would become a great saint, as he did.
Saint Onufrios ate from such heavenly bread for 60 whole years in the
desert. He lived without ever seeing a person, naked, covered by his long beard
and hair. M.
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