The Sacred Little Elder Papa Nicholas
“Father Nicholas knew how to censure, to correct, to enlighten Souls, without rhetorical sermons, but merely with his life, his presence… In the various Churches where he celebrated he was the consolation and refuge of people. He was the ‘Sacred little Elder’ who comforted every human pain.”
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“Sometimes Saint Nicholas Planas, when he would enter the Church to Liturgize, would do his Cross and kiss the wall beneath the Icons. One day the future Metropolitan of Kythera Meletios asked him why he did this, to which he received the following answer: ‘The Saints, my child, know that I am short, so they lay out their feet to where I could reach them and I kiss them!'”
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