Once, when Elder Ambrose Lazaris was at Mount Athos, without receiving a blessing, he had climbed a fig tree outside Koutloumousiou Monastery to cut figs, but he broke the branch and fell badly, bruising his leg.
The night that followed, shortly after midnight, and while he was in terrible pain, the Holy Unmercenaries Kosmas and Damianos appeared from the chapel that commemorates them nearby and immediately fixed his leg as it was before.
So the Elder stood up joyfully and danced and sang, disturbing everyone. And he would say afterwards when he narrated this miracle:
"The monks did not sleep all night and in the morning they held a liturgy. I went to the liturgy too. They held a liturgy for three days. This miracle is written in the Records of the Monastery - on such and such a date when it happened."
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
The night that followed, shortly after midnight, and while he was in terrible pain, the Holy Unmercenaries Kosmas and Damianos appeared from the chapel that commemorates them nearby and immediately fixed his leg as it was before.
So the Elder stood up joyfully and danced and sang, disturbing everyone. And he would say afterwards when he narrated this miracle:
"The monks did not sleep all night and in the morning they held a liturgy. I went to the liturgy too. They held a liturgy for three days. This miracle is written in the Records of the Monastery - on such and such a date when it happened."
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
