Miracles began to abound regarding St. Nectarios. Healings from such diseases as cancer are not uncommon. Many people actually remember being visited by St. Nectarios whom they have described as an old monk in black robes with a white beard. Anastasia, the daughter of an Orthodox priest and was stricken with a stroke at the unbelievable age of two. With palsy on the entire right side of her body and with a speech impediment, His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas visited Anastasia the next day in the hospital. Along with the family, and the Connecticut Deanery clergy, Metropolitan Nicholas prayed over Anastasia and anointed her with oil from the tomb of St. Nectarios asking for the saints healing intercession before our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is without a doubt to the family that through the prayers of St.Nectarios that Anastasia has had a full recovery and shows no sign of the palsy or any speech impediment to this day.
Today, St. Nectarios is one of the most well known and highly venerated saints in Orthodoxy.
St. Nectarios is a modern day saint, a bishop in Greece, despised by many who mistook his popularity amongst the people as an attempt to become patriarch. As such he was relegated to being put in charge of a run down convent. Here St. Nectarios was able to dedicate his life to prayer. His fame spread amongst the lay people and many people came to him for spiritual guidance.
Suspected by his brother clergy of more ambitious goals than a simple abbot of a convent, St. Nectarios was ignored by most of the clergy. He died alone in a local hospital, in the hallway of the emergency room. When it was discovered that he had died, they took his cassock off him and threw on the patient next to him and took St. Nectarios body to the morgue. The patient, upon whom the cassock of the saint had fallen, was healed of the illness for which he had entered the emergency room.
