The Pantocratoros Monastry from Mount Athos, developed an orthodox website who contains lots of useful information about heresies and about orthodox faith, in English, German, Greek, Romanian languages:
http://www.impantokratoros.gr/Papism.en.aspx
And In the Greek and Romanian languages pages I could find some very miraculous historical presentations about the intervention of our Lord in the protection of the orthodox faith, if you know greek or Romanian maybe it would be useful to traslate the entire stories in english for the others too.
I'll short down here little about these stories, the first one is a miracle done by St Spiridon who protected orthodox church from Kerkyra town (church where also lies the relics of St Spiridon) and in which church the catholics wanted to build a catholic altar and to praise their Mass to honour St Spiridon relics from there.
So, to short the story witch you can find all exact how it was, in Romanian, at the link of the monastry from greece here:
http://www.impantokratoros.gr/7BFC9D60.ro.aspx
After the city of Kerkyra was free of turks (by the grace of its Patron, St Spiridon, of whose relics are in this city), freedom which was earned in august 11, 1716; the ruler of those from Kerkyra was Andrei Pizani, a catholic lay person, who was convinced that the city was saved by St Spiridon because he loved the catholic church and because of the prayers of the catholic church from that city. So, he thought that a very good deed to do as a thank you gift to St Spiridon would be to start praying the catholic Liturgi in the church where the relics of St Spiridon were being kept, and this was an orthodox church. He arrived at this conclusion after he talked to his spiritual catholic father Francisc Frangipani, who said to Andrei that this is St Spiridon wish, because the papist thought that St Spiridon helped the city to get rid of the turks and St Spiridon intention is that all the city to come to the catholic religion.
So, hearing this, the ruler of Kerkyra city, Andrei Pizani started preparation for building a small Altar (a small catholic prayer place, near the relics of St Spiridon). The orthodox priests and clergy who heard of this, went to Andrei Pizani and told him that in no way St Spiridon, who was always protected true faith and not heresies (St Spiridon took part at the 1st Ecumenical Synod) St Spiridon would never agree a heretic church to do this near his holy relics.
But Andrei Pizani didn't listen to him but he told everybody to start bringging all the necesarry building materials for starting building the liitle prayer catholic chapel near the relics of St Spiridon, as a thank you gift. But in the same night, the general had a miraculous dream, he saw St Spiridon coming to him and He looked very upset and told him \"Why do you want to upset me, and why do you spread disorder around my faithful sons? Remember that what you want to do, you'll not be useful for your soul.\" The ruler went next day to his spiritual father and explained his dream but this one talked to the other catholic priests and told him that it is only the devil's plan not to bring the people from that city to the right religion, so he must quickly continue his plans.
The general was very happy and did this and brought the materials in the orthodox church where were also the St Spiridon relics in order to begin soon the preparations for the catholic prayer place. But the next night he had a new dream St Spiridon telling him \"Be sure that if you try to upset my faithful church it will not be useful for you.\" He went again to his spiritual catholic father and this told him \"this is deffintely devil's plan, we as christians we should not believe in dreams, so start quickly the building of the catholic prayer place because it will be a very holy thing to do\".
Being encouraged by his spiritual catholic father the general went immediately the next day at the relics of St Spiridon to pray for blessing and good work and called for constructors and the mayor to start the preparations for the small prayer catholic place. But when all they were inside discussing the oldest orthodox priest from that church came to them and ask them to stop this heretic thing as the Saint would not like such a thing and it will not be for their use, this was in november 11, 1718, but the general told him to leave him alone because this is not heretic, but it's building a holy place of prayer to our Lord, and this can't be not liked by the Saint, and if he doesn't shut up he will be put in chains and sent to Venice city.
But in that night, at around 12 in the night, started a big storm, with thunders and rain, and the person who was protected the house of the general saw a monk with a big light in his hands coming to the door and he asked him \"who are you and where do you want to go at this hour in my master house?\" and the monk told him \"I'm Spiridon\", and when he said this the monk took his hand and throw the man out of his way next to the church, and then the man woke up and see himself in foot and everything ok with him, but in the same moment he heard a big explosion like a bomb and all the house of the general and his apendixes were all in a big fire, and everything from his yard was in fire. They found the general being dead under a big pillon, and they also found the general's spiritual father dead and being thrown out in the hall where all the dirties of the city where thrown there (like a toilet, I don't know the word).
Together with them they also died lots of men and women who were serving the general, like 900 of persons.
Also, 2 other miracles have happened the same day, the general had put as a gift in the previous day a big catholic candle above the relics of St Spiridon, that candle was found down on the floor but all the other candles from the church were intact.
Also in the previous day, the relatives of the general who were living in a big house in Venice, Italy, saw a big fire arrow who destroyed the general's picture from a wall and all they believed that something bad will happen to the general.
The next day the catholic clerics from Rome said quickly to the catholic clerics from Kerkyra to remove all the construction materials from the orthodox church and to bring them all to Rome, where they built in the big catholic cathedral from there the praying place for St Spiridon.
This was the big miracle which St Spiridon done to protect his beloved Orthodox Church and to make of shame the catholic heresies.
I almost translated all the first chapter of the book, I hope it will be of use, who knows Greek or Romanian, can read the entire book of this miracle, who was done to show to the people how terrible are hersies and how beloved is the Orthodox Church.
St Marcu Evgheni is saying very straight about catholics that they are heretics, these are His words, and that catholics have not even one valid Mistery (baptize, priesthood, Mass and so on), they have none valid.
Also, on the same link you will find like tens of orthodox priests and thousands of orthodox lay persons who were marthirizind in Serbia and Poland and became saints by being killed by the catholics, in very terrible dyieng (between 1850 and 1950), because they didn't agree to babtize themselves and to recognize catholics.
Another big miracle who you can find it in Romanian here:
http://areopagul.blogspot.com/2009/10/preotii-blestemati-pentru-ca-au-slujit.html
this miracle is done in Mount Athos, and is written by father Filthei Zervakos, and happened between 1170 and 1200 when in the Mount Athos came a big group of \"papist\", catolic priests and monks who oblijed lots of orthodox monks to pray together with them and to recognize the catholic church. The ones who didn't want to do this were being killed and now their relics lay in Mount Athos, but the ones who did this, only 3 monks, can also been seen nowadays in a place called \"the cave of the anathemized monks\", because their bodies after being exhumed (unbarried) after 7 years, how the orthodox monks are doing it, where descovered not putrified but smelling bad, and they also look very bad, yellow and BIG, FAT, and terrifying at seeing. The bodies of the marthirized monks who didn't agree to pray together with catholics and to recognize them are smelling of good Myr, and they have the same shape as they were alive and are laying in Mount Athos Monastries, but the others who were terrifying at look were being put in this cave, for all the vizitors who come to Mount Athos and want to see them and hear the stories to know how terrifying is the punishment for praying with heretics. This cave is near the Big Lavra Monastry from Mount Athos, in a place called Vigla, and the place is marked with the name \"Afurismeno\".
Another miracle done by our Lord in order to show what is the right religion and in order to light the minds of the catholic to end their heresies and come to where they left, was done in 1625 in the town of Vilno. This miracle you can read it all in Romanian here :
http://areopagul.blogspot.com/2009/10/o-minune-care-arata-ca-greco-catolicii.html
This miracle shows that indeed greco-catholic and catholic have valid none of the 7 Wonders (Baptize, Mass, Priesthood and so on).
In 1625 in the town of Vilno was the black death disease spreading and killing thousands of persons. After the black death ended the catholic and greeko-catholics priests from there wanted to make a Mass in the name of the dead persons. And as it is during Mass, they put red wine in the cup, there were there also ieromonk Rafail Korsak, Valerian Kalnofoiski and some others, and when it came the time for giving communication to the people who came to church all the cup turned into plain water, they saw that there were no at least a bit of wine in the cup they said that maybe the priest didn't put any wine in the cup, but the priest said it put wine enough from the bottle, so they thought maybe the one from which they bought the wine didn't gave them wine so they went after him and the person sware he gave them the best wine as he's afraid of church. They knew then that this was a sign from sky to show them that nothing is happening during their catholic Mass and no Holy Spirit is going down to transform in a miraculous way the wine into the holy Blood of our Saviour, and the bread into the Holy body of our Saviour. The same happened also in the city of Grubesov when Ipatie Pociej with other heretics bishops were having the Mass in St Nicholas church and the wine turned to water, and seeing this they said to pur more wine and more in the cup but no wine was seen, but all wine was turning into water in the cup, and our Lord seeing they didn't understand that He wants them to turn back from their heresies, seeing them pooring/puting and pooring/puting wine in that cup, suddenly the cup broke and all the water felt on the floor and in that moment all were terrifyed and Simeon Ceaika seeing this has yelled from all his lungs \"Our bishops are heretics, don't listen to them anymore.\" And people gathered there seeing what happened they left the church one after the other.
The same was in 1596, at the Council from Berestie, at their first Liturgi, the heretics, catholics and greek-catholics announced everybody that they united together and they cursed the Holy Orthodox Church for being heretical and during this first Mass of theirs the wine turned to water, and they were ashamed and understood that this is a bad sign, this our Lord has done in His big Grace only to show that Holy Spirit doesn't go down at any of the heretical Masses, Baptizes etc. The same happened at Rubejov and Berest Litovsk.
And because this is a book telling the event from the catholic church from Vilno, I want to add that the witness of this miracle was Elisei Ikovski who was on those times, a monk in the heretical catholic church and now it's protopsalt in the Big Lavra Pecerska from Kiev who converted the next day to the orthodox church, telling us this miracle seen by him in his past church.
The miracles done at Grubeşov and in Berestie we found out from other priests and from books which are writing about this moment, if you want to know more about them, please read the book of the so called \"catholic priest\" Skarga, \"In the protection of the Berestie Council\", where you can find this event with the wine turning into water at the page 44, but he is adding that it might have been a mistake with the wine, and in the book \"Virginity verification\", where you can find it on the last page, but also were being told to us by Gavriil Homenetki , who were on those times the helping hand of the staretz from Grubesov.
What can be added; there are also the same miraculous events told by our orthodox Saints, events of which they were witnesses, and which you can find in their lives or different books, that during the orthodox Liturgi, Mass, there were many cases when the wine turned into blood and the bread turned miraculous into meat, or they saw angels coming around the holy table or a baby being crucyfied at every St orthodox Liturgi, and the orthodox priests seeing this miraculous things started to pray and ask our Lord for turning them into holy wine and holy bread because they could not communicate the people with them like this, and they miraculous turned back how they were. Because our Lord told us, that at each St Liturgi he is crucyfying Himself for our sins and those who don't believe and don't participate in this biggest orthodox Mass they loose a very important event from the orthodox life, as during it, all the angles from the sky and Saints are praying together with the lay people among them in the church, and we have many orthodox testimony of Saints who were able to see this with their own eyes.
So I translated almost all from the Romanian link.
There are many such events but it's not so easy to translate them, I'll copy-paste here a little part of St Antony the Great battle with heretics, during 300 year, where heresy appeared in the world and also in the Egypt dessert where St Antony the Great was living, as we know from Pateric, and who was totaly against heretics and heresies.
You can find the English version here:
http://www.impantokratoros.gr/Ecumenism-Greatantony.en.aspx
Or copy-paste it here:
2. Teachers of inaction and hypocrisy. The all-knowing and the humble
Before Constantine the Great, during the persecution of the Christians of Alexandria by Maximianus in 311, Anthony the Great at 61 years of age, left for a while the desert, his asceticism and prayer, and came to Alexandria, fearless and undaunted intending with longing to bear witness and encourage those being led to martyrdom. He defiantly ignored the judge's orders for the monks to depart from the city and not be present at the courthouses. He appeared in front of the leader who was in a prominent seat at the courthouse, demonstrating the willingness of the Christians to fight and bear witness for their faith. \"He stood fearless, showing us the Christian zeal; for he too wished for martyrdom as earlier told\". Of course God preserved him and he was not martyred, that he be more beneficial in life, he however did not confine himself to his cell in the desert but \"would usually serve the confessors as one with them in the labour of their services\". When the Orthodox Faith is in danger, the first spiritual priority is for her defense, the struggle, the support of all those who battle, the willingness to shed blood and even die; all other spiritual duties are secondary. All others who act or advise against, simply cover up their excuses for their unwillingness and cowardice and become teachers and professors of inaction and hypocrisy.
Of course we are not going to present here how the Great Anthony confronted the great and educated literary men and philosophers of idolatry with indisputable argumentation, himself being illiterate, leaving them speechless and astounded. Perhaps we shall do so another time, for idolatry and paganism again appeared, backed by powerful supporters. The Saint did not know everything the way they did, he did not possess worldly knowledge, but he knew the Bible and the teachings of the Saints and above all he was God learnt and God inspired.
Faith is not an issue of great knowledge and learning but humble submission not to the prevailing knowledge but to the truth of the Church, timeless and eternal. If one does not strip oneself of self wisdom and display of self-knowledge and humbly become embodied in the spirit of Christ, of the Church, of the Saints and Church Fathers which opens the spiritual horizons, then one will always wonder and second guess the certainty of Faith and self knowledge of even the simple faithful and he will accuse them as all knowing and selfish, lacking humility. However, humility does not mean one has to accept the prevailing opinion but the knowledge of God and of the Saints because frequently many align with the lie and empower the lie with their majority. If the acceptance of the majority opinion when it disagrees with the truth constituted the acceptance criterion, then not only the Bible would have been acceptable, being supported by the few Apostles nor would the Church had survived in a flood of unfaithful and heretics.
3. The position of Saint Anthony against the heretics. A prototype for imitation for all today.
What we wish to do now is to present the way Saint Anthony confronted the Arian heresy, which threatened the Church internally, being supported by the Emperor, leaders, patriarchs and bishops as happens in this day with the pan-heresies of Papism and Ecumenism, which are far more dangerous because they undermine almost all the dogmas of the faith and transform the divine teaching of the Bible to a common human teaching, they withdraw the God-Man Christ, the Saints and the Fathers and replace them with the infallible pope of Rome and the spread of heresies of the World Council of the so-called Churches. This presentation is very instructive even for those who pretend not to see the danger, for \"serious\" spiritual fathers who lead astray or put in very difficult position, their spiritual children, who see better through the eyes of the Saints and end up doubting the worthiness of their spiritual guidance. Of course the Saints are more trustworthy than any elder and spiritual guide, who does not become angry at heresy and does not fight to expose or expel it.
So, Great Anthony, left the desert for the second time and came down to Alexandria. The Orthodox bishop and patriarch was the Great Athanasius, who was under constant persecution and a string of exiles and the orthodox flock were under the heretical Arians as at the present time under the tutelage of ecumenist and pro-ecumenist patriarchs and bishops. Great Anthony as we are taught by his \"Life\" and the topic of faith \"he was most wonderful and reverent\". He had dealings with the schismatic Meletians because from the beginning he was aware of their cunningness and apostasy. But also with the Manicheans and other heretics he was never friendly but only to advise and turn them back to be faithful Orthodox. He believed and taught that friendship and keeping company with them was damaging and could end in loss of soul. He detested the Arian heresy and admonished everybody not to draw near them nor accept their false faith. Once when some fanatical Arians paid him a visit. Having talked with them and understanding that they were unfaithful, he sent them away from the mountain where he led his asceticism, telling them their words were worse than the venom of snakes. This document we could say sets the rule which shows us with clarity, truthfully and without deception, how to conduct dialogues with the heretics and we must regulate our human and social interactions with them. At the same time it shows us that today all the boundaries that were set by the Holy Fathers are being demolished by the Ecumenists, who embrace and kiss the heretics as if they were pious and of the same faith and never consider not to send them away and keep their distance but also not even to admonish them so that they return to Orthodoxy. The dialogues are conducted on an \"equal level\". Leveling of lies, heresies and deceptions with truth. When conversing on \"equal level\", it means that you provide the possibility for lies to prevail over the truth, that you doubt the truth and you seek to find it. However the dialogue of the Saints and of the Fathers, is a dialogue of Christ with the Samaritan woman, of the Apostles with the Jews and Gentiles, of the Fathers with the heretics, an invitation and admonishment for their return to the truth, to be re-included in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church; this is the true union and peace. All the rest are false unions, false peace and false dialogues.
Because therefore this article demonstrates the way to the true union from the mouth of the great Saint and achieves the \"all must be one\" for which the Ecumenists labour and attempt to accomplish it \"ad verbatim\". In faith he is very admirable and devout. For he never communicated with the schismatic Melitians seeing from the start their cunningness and apostasy; nor did he speak in a friendly way with the Manicheans and other similar heretics, but only to admonish them to turn back to piety, leading and commissioning their friendship and dialogue is harmful and risking loss of one's soul. He similarly despised the Arian heresy and ordered everyone not to approach them nor their evil faith. Finally, when some of the Arians and Manicheans came to question him and realizing their impiety, he sent them away from the mountain, saying that their speech is worse than the poison of the snakes.
4. The dreadful vision of Saint Anthony on the heretics: Dumb beasts around the Holy Altar.
It is truly dreadful the vision that Saint Anthony had regarding the presence of the heretics inside Orthodox churches. This vision illustrates and explains graphically the reasons why the Holy Fathers forbid with Synodal canons the entry of the heretics into consecrated places, their participation in services and liturgies, with common prayers and common worshipping.
The heretics not accepting the teachings of the Church, Apostles and Saints, are influenced by the demons and their father, the Devil, in the promotion of deluded viewpoints. That is why their teaching is \"rather fruitless and absurd and their thinking is not correct, like that of dumb mules
Saint Anthony was therefore shaken and frightened, when God allowed him to see in his vision the Arians surrounding the Holy Altar as mules, kicking and defiling it. Such was his sadness and distress, that he began to cry, as saddened and tearful as also many faithful, in seeing the heretic pope entering and defiling the church of Saint George, at Fanar, the very Saint the Vatican abolished. We are certain that if the patriarchs, archbishops and bishops read and learnt of Saint Anthony's vision, of course assuming as Orthodox they continue to honour and follow the life and teaching of the Saints, they will cease the mutual liturgical hospitalities and visits, the weekly co-prayers and the sending of representatives to the anniversary celebrations. For otherwise they too will be included as conspirators in the frightful vision of Saint Anthony.
According to the Great Athanasius narration of the \"Life\", while Great Anthony was sitting, occupied with his handy work, he went into a trance and was breathing heavily while seeing his vision. After some time he turned to the monks present; he continued breathing heavily and to shake. He fell to his knees to pray and remained kneeling for a considerable time. When the Elder got up he was crying. Those present became very frightened and shocked; they then asked him to explain to them. As they insisted greatly and compelled him, he sighed again and said \"My children it would be best for me to die before I see the things that will happen which I saw in my vision. The wrath of God will fall on the Church and she will be handed to people who are mindless beasts. I saw the Holy Altar of the church, at the main skete surrounded on all sides by mules which were kicking and jumping up and down as is natural for such dumb animals. You saw and perceived that I was earlier sighing; I did so because I heard a voice saying, \"My altar will be defiled\". That is what the Elder saw. Exactly two years later the Arians attacked and robbed the churches, taking the sacred vessels by force and handed them over to idolaters to hold. They forced them to attend meetings and in their presence they did whatever they wished on the Holy Altar. Then we all understood, said the Great Athanasius that the kicking of the mules foretold to Saint Anthony was what the Arians do now as animals. After the vision, the Elder felt the need to encourage and console those around him by saying: \"Don't be sad my children; for just as our Lord was outraged, so would He again heal all evil. Soon the Church will recover her beauty and will shine. You will witness those who were exiled return, the pious faith will re-appear and rule everywhere. Suffice that you do not let yourselves be defiled by the Arian heresy, as it is not the teaching of the Apostles but of the demons and their father, the Devil, irrational and fruitless just like the dumb mules\"
Epilogue
The wrath of God has taken over the Church since many decades. Papism and Ecumenism triumph. At that time Great Athanasius and the other Holy Fathers understood the danger described in the vision of Great Anthony. We now witness the contamination of the churches and the Holy Altars by joint prayers and liturgies with the \"irrational\" heretics and we assist the contamination and praise it, by joining them ourselves in the kicking of the Holy of Holies\". If one notes the ecumenical joint liturgies and prayers, like the one in Canberra during 7th General Council of the so-called Churches, with the frequent participation of homosexual priests who dare hold the Holy Chalice, as well as women bishops and priestesses, the view surpasses even the vision of the Great Anthony: \"The only hope for our church to regain her beauty is given in the recommendation and advice of the Great Anthony : \" beware you do not contaminate yourselves with the Arians\" We must beware we do not contaminate ourselves by communing with Papism and Ecumenism , and the pro-papist and pro-ecumenist Orthodox. Because so far we have not done so dynamically and resolutely, God for years now, prolongs His wrath, and captivity of the Orthodox by the pan-heresy Of Ecumenism. How much longer will bishops, monks and the laity allow the mindless beasts, the heretics, to kick and contaminate the Sacred and Holies of Orthodoxy? As long as we remain inactive and come up with different pseudo-spiritual excuses, the abomination of desolation will stand on Holy ground.
Greek Text
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